In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning
"England's Dreaming," Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the Engli
sh punk movement" ("The New York Times"). Now, in "Teenage," he explores the sec
ret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultu
ral investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in 1945, when the term
"teenage" became an integral part of popular culture, Savage draws widely on fi
lm, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art and fuses popular
culture and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life.
