Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

11-20-2014

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Abstract

In the course of a review of a colleagues book on the Beat generation of poets and novelists I examine two narratives that society has adopted of youth at least certain rich and spoiled ones The narratives boys will be boys and genius is a little bit crazy have implications for the police educators and parents inasmuch as they buy wide latitude for young people like Alan Ginsburg Jack Kerouac and their crowd who went to good schools were their teachers darlings drank and took drugs and committed many crimes along the way to becoming famous If you have a teenage child or relative you will perhaps enjoy my demonstration that teenagers are a social construction and do not really exist

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