From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of court…

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