The Wasted Years by Jess Stearn [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1968 • Macfadden *See Condition!

The Wasted Years by Jess Stearn

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK [1996] MACFADDEN-BARTELL

Second Printing / 1968.  Decent reading copy with damage. 

*Book has water damage; some water staining to cover and page edges (from dye on text block) no text affected (see photos...)  

Sex
Sadism
Murder
Brutality
Perversion
Prostitution
Drug Addiction
Trademarks of the teen-age gangs.

SEX-AND-SADISM BY TEEN-AGERS  MURDER-AND-MAYHEM  BY MERE CHILDREN!

YOU READ ABOUT IT EYERY DAY IN YOUR NEWSPAPERS BUT..• WHY

did a pretty Texas teen-ager kill her brother "just for kicks?"

WHY  did a boy say calmly, "I don't know why  I killed him; I didn't even know him?"  WHY  did a seventeen-year-old say, "I wanted to see how it felt for a knife to dig into bone?"  WHY  did a clean-cut youngster stomp a total  stranger to death because he didn't like the tune the man was humming?

Jess Stearn, top New York newspaperman, goes behind the scenes to search for the "why" in this carefully documented study of what happens before and after the headlines.