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Popular Culture
October 16, 2020
Teen Spirit
How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World
Paul Howe
Hosted by Michelle Newhart
Paul Howe's book Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World (Cornell UP, 2020) is a “big idea” book. It proposes that some of the woes of contemporary life can be traced to high school. Award-winning author and economics professor Paul Howe suggests that when our society moved to a near-universal adoption of high school education, it accomplished many intended goals such as a better educated populace, but it also …
American Studies
August 27, 2020
Gray Matters
Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life
Ellyn Lem
Hosted by Michelle Newhart
As Baby Boomers reach the tipping point of aging into later life, the record numbers of seniors int the 65 and over crowd generates greater interest and in aging and …