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A memoir based on handwritten documents, newspaper articles, family interviews and personal history.  An entertaining account of growing up in Northern Virginia.

"Paul Steucke has written an engaging memoir that neatly captures the spirit of the teen culture that emerged in America following World War II when the naughty drug of choice was beer.  He documents the almost breathtaking rise of Virginia's D.C. suburbs in that epoch and notes how his own parents coped with the transition form Depression-era paucity to Eisenhower-era abundance.

Along the way, he evokes the period's rock-n'-roll sock hops, its car culture, and daily life in the region's racially segregated public schools.  If you like the films Rebel without a Cause and American Graffiti, you'll love this volume."

  -Douglas Foard: PhD in History: author of The Revolt of the Aesthetes,
   The Franklin Connection, Poet on Ice:  Dioniso Ridrujo, and The Forgotten Falangist;
   Berryville, Virginia