American Childhood

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“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“The limitless future of childhood shrinks to realistic proportions, to one of limited chances and goals; but, by the same token, the mastery of time and space and the conquest of helplessness afford a hitherto unknown promise of self- realization. This is the human condition of adolescence.”
—Peter Blos (20th century)