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Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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.

Un-Canadian Activities

Un-Canadian Activities

Fragile Freedoms: Human Rights and Dissent in Canada

by Thomas R. Berger

Portrait of Canada

by June Callwood

November 4, 1982 issue

Splitting Up

The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty

by Jane Jacobs

November 20, 1980 issue

School’s Out

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 and Diane Divoky

November 27, 1975 issue

Survivors

Photographs of My Father

by Paul Spike

The Amnesty of John David Herndon

by James Reston Jr.

September 20, 1973 issue

Schools for Scandal

Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community

by Martin Duberman

Educational Commune: The Story of Commonwealth College

by Raymond Koch and Charlotte Koch

November 16, 1972 issue

After Puberty, What?

Notes of a Processed Brother

by Donald Reeves

No Particular Place To Go: The Making of a Free High School

by Steve Bhaerman and Joel Denker

Twelve to Sixteen: Early Adolescence

edited by Stephen R. Graubard

May 4, 1972 issue

Dear Mr. Rockefeller…

South to a Very Old Place

by Albert Murray

The Decline of the WASP

by Peter Schrag

February 24, 1972 issue

Ship of Fools

The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, Hospital, Law and Order, High School, Basic Training

by Frederick Wiseman

October 21, 1971 issue

Southern Discomfort

Confessions of a White Racist

by Larry L. King

Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town

by Willie Morris

September 2, 1971 issue

Bad Blood

The Gift Relationship

by Richard M. Titmuss

May 20, 1971 issue

Youth Wants to Know

Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago

by Todd Gitlin and 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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November 19, 1970 issue

In the Cage

Families Against the City

by Richard Sennett

The Uses of Disorder

by Richard Sennett

September 3, 1970 issue

National Self-Abuse

The Pursuit of Loneliness

by Phillip E. Slater

Technology and Empire

by George Grant

June 4, 1970 issue

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