Volume 18, Number 8 · May 4, 1972
After Puberty, What?
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Notes of a Processed Brother
by Donald Reeves
Pantheon, 480 pp., $8.95
No Particular Place To Go: The Making of a Free High School
by Steve Bhaerman, by Joel Denker
Simon & Schuster, 222 pp., $6.95
Twelve to Sixteen: Early Adolescence
edited by Stephen R. Graubard
Daedalus, 100, 4, 325 pp., $2.50 (to be published as a book by Norton this spring)
All three of these works have, as their subject, certain aspects of the life—of the very different lives—of young people today; mostly in America, though there are glimpses of Jamaica in Mr. Reeves's book and some cross-cultural observation, chiefly in a paper by Joseph Douvan, 'The Political Imagination of the Young Adolescent,' included in the Daedalus volume. Although many readers have wearied of thinking about the lives of the young, it must nevertheless be conceded that the topic retains an intrinsic importance, if the future is to have any at all. What Samuel Johnson once said of the city of London is even truer of the young: to be tired of them is to be tired of life. Messrs. Reeves, Bhaerman, and Denker clearly do not find themselves in this condition; about half the contributors to the Daedalus volume write as if they do.
Review, 4151 words
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