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Hine's thesis is that "teen-agers" didn't really exist as a cohesive social group before the Depression.
Although public high schools had been around since 1821 (and prep schools had been around before then), secondary education, Hine writes, had been "very slow to win acceptance among working-class families that counted on their children's incomes for survival."
Hine argues, quite persuasively, that the indulgent mass "teen-age" culture is largely the result of corralling most of society's 14-to-18-year-olds into American high schools.
Judging from the American Heritage excerpt, Hine takes the self-serving baby-boomer view that teen-age culture started to decline, oh, right around the time he ceased participating in it.
The "decline" portion of Hine's article is the sketchiest and least convincing part; perhaps he fleshes out his argument more convincingly in the book.