American Childhoods: Three Centuries of Youth at Risk
- ISBN-10
- 0802784275
- ISBN-13
- 9780802784278
- Series
- American Childhoods
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 135
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Author
- Richard Wormser
Description
Describes the many hardships America's children have had to endure from colonial times to the present.
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