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"There were no "teenagers" before World War II. Ask
those still living who raised their children before then. Or spend a rainy
Saturday in the basement of your library, comparing old Life magazines from
before the War and after.
"Instead of Teenagers, there were Youths. Youths were
young people who wanted to become adults. However confused, wayward, or silly
they acted, however many mistakes they made, they looked to the future, wanted
to make it different from their youth, and planned to. They were aware that
life is more than youth. The Teenager has no such horizon. Beyond the "Teeny"
world there is no adult life, no past with heroes, no future with goals."
~Michael Platt, "Youth vs. Teenager"
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Featured Resource |
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The Four Lost American Ideals is an hour-long recorded lecture that can be purchase either as an MP3 download or an audio CD.
Scroll down or click the links below to learn more.
- Product Description
- Reviews
- About Oliver DeMille
- Free download of audio excerpt
Description
Oliver DeMille draws from intensive study of the Founding generation to identify five defining ideals of Americanism:
- Freedom
- Georgics
- Providence
- Liber
- Public Virtue
Although the first, freedom, has not yet been fully lost, it is
steadily declining because of the loss of the other four. These four
ideals permeated early American society but have largely been forgotten.
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Bonus Gifts
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