Traces the glory days of teen buggery, when a young boy’s ass was his ticket to the top. “Maintains the Cretan sages established a system under which a young warrior in his early 20s took a teenager of his own aristocratic background as a beloved until the age of 30, when service to the state required the older partner to marry. The practice spread to other Greek-speaking areas. In some places it emphasized the development of the athletic, warrior individual, while in others both intellectual and civic achievements were its goals. In Athens it became a vehicle of cultural transmission, so that the best of each older cohort selected, loved and trained the best of the younger.” Evidence is given to show that this popular brand of butt-busting male bonding gave rise to Hellas and the “Greek miracle.” It gave rise to something, that’s for sure. GR

Publisher: University of Illinois
Hardback: 261 pages
Illustrated

“The harrowing story of a young Jewish mother who evades the Nazis from one Polish city to the next until she winds up in Heidelberg, Germany, where she works as a maid until liberation… One of the finest, most authentically dramatic and richly detailed memoirs written by a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust.”

Publisher: University of Illinois
Paperback: 178 pages
Illustrated