| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Bill Osgerby. Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America. New York: Berg. 2001. Pp. xii, 232. Cloth $68.00, paper $20.00.

Bill Osgerby's book, Youth in Britain since 1945 (1997), was a genuinely pioneering and original tour de force that broke new ground as a history of youth in twentieth-century Britain. In it, Osgerby convincingly argued that Talcott Parson's concept of "youth culture" had no application in the British context (as sociologists before had tended to assume it had) because British young people continued to be divided by class. Hence there developed the richness of British youth experience: from "ikey lads" to "teds" to "skinheads," and from "mods" to "rockers." 1

Now Osgerby has attempted to do something similar to his earlier work on Britain for the American context. As Osgerby recognizes, this poses all sorts of difficulties, not least that historians of the United States have paid far more attention to youth than their British counterparts. Very often the author seems to be going over well-worn ground, especially since, apart from examinations of Esquire and Playboy magazines, he draws largely on secondary sources. . . .

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