The Lost Generation: A Portrait of American Youth Today

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block, discoloration/offsetting to both endpapers and pastedowns, tiny dent in right edge of front cover]. The author's preface states: "This book is a portrayal of a condition which demands both an immediate remedy and a long-range program, for it deals with that most perishable of all commodities: youth. I have endeavored to show the characteristics, the opportunities, the handicaps, the needs, and our chance to help the boys and girls in this country who face the most difficult situation which has ever confronted youth in the history of this nation. This volume makes no pretense of scientifically based authority. It is the work of a journalist: the result of observation, analysis, eclecticism, personal opinion, and personal conclusion. For it, I gathered the material as any reporter covers a story: I went out over the country and collected it, adding to my findings the studies and research of some years of journalistic writing in this field." .