Gifted Tongues
Subtitle: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780691074504
Subjects: Adolescents; Cultural studies; Extra-curricular activities; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Life Stages - Adolescence; Public Speaking; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Debates and debating
First sentence: BY EARLY afternoon Friday, vans begin to pull into the parking lot at Harrison High School-a modern, well-landscaped campus in the suburban outskirts of St. Paul, Minnesota.