Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1927-2000) was an American social critic and scholar of education. His books include Coming of Age in America and Growth and Acquiescence.
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Un-Canadian Activities
November 4, 1982
Fragile Freedoms: Human Rights and Dissent in Canada by Thomas R. Berger
Portrait of Canada by June Callwood
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Splitting Up
November 20, 1980
The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty by Jane Jacobs
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The Smiles of Carter
October 14, 1976
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School’s Out
November 27, 1975
Half the House by Herbert Kohl
Being with Children by Phillip Lopate
The Myth of the Hyperactive Child and other Means of Child Control by Peter Schrag, by Diane Divoky
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Survivors
September 20, 1973
Photographs of My Father by Paul Spike
The Amnesty of John David Herndon by James Reston Jr.
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See Canada First
August 9, 1973
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Good Manners
May 17, 1973
Forum: Canadian Life and Letters, 1920-1970 edited by J.L. Granatstein, edited by Peter Stevens
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Schools for Scandal
November 16, 1972
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community by Martin Duberman
Educational Commune: The Story of Commonwealth College by Raymond Koch, by Charlotte Koch
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After Puberty, What?
May 4, 1972
Notes of a Processed Brother by Donald Reeves
No Particular Place To Go: The Making of a Free High School
by Steve Bhaerman, by Joel Denker
Twelve to Sixteen: Early Adolescence edited by Stephen R. Graubard
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Dear Mr. Rockefeller
February 24, 1972
South to a Very Old Place by Albert Murray
The Decline of the WASP by Peter Schrag
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A Matter of Urgency
February 10, 1972
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Pox Americana
December 30, 1971
Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease by Theodor Rosebury M.D.
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The Love that Dare Now Speak Its Name in The New York Times
November 4, 1971
On Being Different by Merle Miller
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Ship of Fools
October 21, 1971
The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, Hospital, Law and Order, High School, Basic Training by Frederick Wiseman
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Southern Discomfort
September 2, 1971
Confessions of a White Racist by Larry L. King
Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town by Willie Morris
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Bad Blood
May 20, 1971
The Gift Relationship
by Richard M. Titmuss
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Youth Wants to Know
November 19, 1970
Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago by Todd Gitlin, by Nancy Hollander
Revolutionary Notes by Julius Lester
Search for the New Land by Julius Lester
Going All the Way
by Dan Wakefield
Parentheses: An Autobiographical Journey by Jay Neugeboren
Left at the Post by Nicholas von Hoffman
Moving Through Here by Don McNeill
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In the Cage
September 3, 1970
Families Against the City by Richard Sennett
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett
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So It Goes
July 23, 1970
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National Self-Abuse
June 4, 1970
The Pursuit of Loneliness
by Phillip E. Slater
Technology and Empire by George Grant
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Report from the Niagara Frontier
May 7, 1970
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Trouble in Buffalo
April 23, 1970
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An Exchange on La Raza
February 12, 1970
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Outcasts
December 18, 1969
Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid by Peter Nabokov
La Raza: The Mexican-Americans (to be published in January) by Stan Steiner
Uprooted Children The Early Life of Migrant Farm Workers (to be published in February) by Robert Coles
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The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy
June 19, 1969
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Patriotic Gore
June 19, 1969
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship by Gore Vidal
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Only in America
May 8, 1969
The Temper of Our Time by Eric Hoffer
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer by Calvin Tompkins, with Aphorisms by Eric Hoffer
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Sentimental Education
November 21, 1968
The Disadvantaged by Mario D. Fantini, by Gerald Weinstein
Education and Ecstasy by George B. Leonard
Who Can Be Educated? by Milton Schwebel
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Motown Justice
August 1, 1968
The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey
The Torture of Mothers by Truman Nelson
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The Way We Live Now
May 23, 1968
III-at-Ease in Compton by Richard M. Elman
The Levittowners by Herbert J. Gans
The Way It Spozed to Be
by James Herndon
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Calling Dr. Spock!
March 28, 1968
The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman
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Du côté de chez Podhoretz
February 1, 1968
Making It
by Norman Podhoretz
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Boy’s Life
December 21, 1967
Stop-time by Frank Conroy
North Toward Home by Willie Morris
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Love in a Cold Climate
September 28, 1967
Children of Crisis by Robert Coles
The Americanization of the Unconscious by John Seeley
The Healing Partnership by Bernard Steinzor
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The Lower Depths
May 18, 1967
Up the Junction
by Nell Dunn
Division Street: America by Studs Terkel
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Tennis Anyone?
April 6, 1967
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The Sunset Strip
March 9, 1967
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Leadership
December 15, 1966
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A Violent Country
October 20, 1966
A Sign for Cain: An Exploration in Human Violence by Fredric Wertham M.D.
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One of the Boys
September 22, 1966
Twentyone Twice: A Journal by Mark Harris
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Recess
July 7, 1966
Voices in the Classroom by Peter Schrag
The Schoolchildren by Mary Frances Greene, by Oleta Ryan
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
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Another America
March 3, 1966
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Greatly Exaggerated
February 3, 1966
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Kids Without a Country
January 6, 1966
The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in American Society by Kenneth Keniston
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Illegal Sex
October 14, 1965
Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types by Paul H. Gebhard, by John H. Gagnon, by Wardell B. Pomeroy, by Cornelia V. Christenson, by Paul B. Hoeber
How Many More Victims by Gladys Denny Shultz
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Making the Grade
August 26, 1965
Youth and the Social Order by F. Musgrove
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
by Morris Rosenberg
The Social Context of Ambition by Ralph Turner
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The King’s Visit
July 1, 1965
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Childhood, Society, and Erik Erikson
May 6, 1965
Childhood and Society
by Eric Erikson
Insight and Responsibility by Eric Erikson
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Dropping Out
March 25, 1965
Delinquency and Drift by David Matza
Street-Corner Research by Ralph Schwitzgebel
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How the Schools Fail
January 14, 1965
How Children Fail by John Holt
The Student and his Studies by Esther Raushenbush
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The Education of James Conant and Paul Goodman
November 19, 1964
Two Modes of Thought: My Encounters with Science and Education by James B. Conant
Shaping Educational Policy by James B. Conant
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Education and “Stupidity”
August 20, 1964
The Tyranny of Schooling: An Inquiry into the Problem of “Stupidity” by Lewis A. Dexter
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The Question of Major Eatherly
April 30, 1964
The Hiroshima Pilot by William Bradford Huie
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Uplift
February 6, 1964
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society
by John W. Gardner
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Pride and Prejudice
January 23, 1964
An Education in Georgia: The Integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
by Calvin Trillin
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L. A. of the Intellect
November 14, 1963
The Uses of the University by Clark Kerr
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Lower-Middle Classroom
September 26, 1963
The Education of American Teachers by James B. Conant
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Organization Kids
February 1, 1963
Education and the New America by Solon T. Kimball, by James McClellan Jr.

