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We need to understand how youths experience their own citizenship if we want to reform education and politics. Because The Evolving Citizen draws on the students own voices and ideas, interpreted insightfully, it is a valuable and skillful contribution to our understanding of citizenship today. It is a significant book methodologically innovative, persuasive, and carrying an important message. Peter Levine, Tufts University

<em>The Evolving Citizen </em>is an engaging look at the changing ways in which America's teens write about their political and civic environment. This important inventory of how youths adapt to the realities of their times and alter the meaning of democracy offers reasons for hope and concern. By spanning five decades, Jay Childers's examination of how young adults have shifted their areas of focus, their levels of engagement, and the issues they find most riveting provides insight into the evolving meaning of citizenship and changing norms of civic engagement. This is a welcome addition to the literature, offering a ground-level look at ordinary democracy. </p>--Gerard A. Hauser, University of Colorado Boulder</p>

The Evolving Citizen is an engaging look at the changing ways in which America's teens write about their political and civic environment. This important inventory of how youths adapt to the realities of their times and alter the meaning of democracy offers reasons for hope and concern. By spanning five decades, Jay Childers's examination of how young adults have shifted their areas of focus, their levels of engagement, and the issues they find most riveting provides insight into the evolving meaning of citizenship and changing norms of civic engagement. This is a welcome addition to the literature, offering a ground-level look at ordinary democracy. --Gerard A. Hauser, University of Colorado Boulder

We need to understand how youths experience their own citizenship if we want to reform education and politics. Because The Evolving Citizen draws on the students' own voices and ideas, interpreted insightfully, it is a valuable and skillful contribution to our understanding of citizenship today. It is a significant book--methodologically innovative, persuasive, and carrying an important message. --Peter Levine, Tufts University The Evolving Citizen is an engaging look at the changing ways in which America's teens write about their political and civic environment. This important inventory of how youths adapt to the realities of their times and alter the meaning of democracy offers reasons for hope and concern. By spanning five decades, Jay Childers's examination of how young adults have shifted their areas of focus, their levels of engagement, and the issues they find most riveting provides insight into the evolving meaning of citizenship and changing norms of civic engagement. This is a welcome addition to the literature, offering a ground-level look at ordinary democracy. --Gerard A. Hauser, University of Colorado Boulder Jay Childers's work places itself within the scholarly conversation accurately, repeatedly, and convincingly, and Childers uses primary texts that, to my knowledge, have not been frequently investigated by other scholars. --Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University

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Jay P. Childers is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.

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