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Edgar Z. Friedenberg was a 20th-century American scholar of education and gender studies. Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg was an American scholar of education best known for The Vanishing Adolescent (1959) and Coming of Age in America (1965). The latter was a finalist for the 1966 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.”
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“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”
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“The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.”
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