Hendrik Hartog is Princeton University’s Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus. For more than a decade, he directed Princeton’s American Studies program. He is the author of Man and Wife in America, Someday All This Will Be Yours, and The Trouble with Minna, among other books.

"With his characteristic eye for the telling tale, Hartog traces the life of a self-governing republic of boys and its enigmatic creator, Jack Robbins, from Progressive Era Chicago to Cold War era Los Angeles. Hartog’s account is as revelatory in its unexpected turns as in its deep reflection on adolescent selfhood, freedom, governance, and law. It offers a model and a critical reminder that law and legal history belong as much to the young, to wrongdoers and wronged, and to idiosyncratic figures who dare to think and live against the grain as it does to those with economic and political power."

• Introduction(One) The Big Brother(Two) On the Boy Problem(Three) Jack Robbins, Supervisor, and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic(Four) As Clara Laughlin Saw It: War, Energy, and Democracy(Five) Who Was Jack Robbins? Or, Things Unsaid, 1920–1958(Six) Jack Robbins’s Will(Seven) Enter the Lawyers(Eight) And Then What Happened?ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography

Hendrik Hartog is Princeton University’s Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus. For more than a decade, he directed Princeton’s American Studies program. He is the author of Man and Wife in America, Someday All This Will Be Yours, and The Trouble with Minna, among other books.

"With his characteristic eye for the telling tale, Hartog traces the life of a self-governing republic of boys and its enigmatic creator, Jack Robbins, from Progressive Era Chicago to Cold War era Los Angeles. Hartog’s account is as revelatory in its unexpected turns as in its deep reflection on adolescent selfhood, freedom, governance, and law. It offers a model and a critical reminder that law and legal history belong as much to the young, to wrongdoers and wronged, and to idiosyncratic figures who dare to think and live against the grain as it does to those with economic and political power."

• Introduction(One) The Big Brother(Two) On the Boy Problem(Three) Jack Robbins, Supervisor, and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic(Four) As Clara Laughlin Saw It: War, Energy, and Democracy(Five) Who Was Jack Robbins? Or, Things Unsaid, 1920–1958(Six) Jack Robbins’s Will(Seven) Enter the Lawyers(Eight) And Then What Happened?ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography

Hendrik Hartog is Princeton University’s Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus. For more than a decade, he directed Princeton’s American Studies program. He is the author of Man and Wife in America, Someday All This Will Be Yours, and The Trouble with Minna, among other books.

"With his characteristic eye for the telling tale, Hartog traces the life of a self-governing republic of boys and its enigmatic creator, Jack Robbins, from Progressive Era Chicago to Cold War era Los Angeles. Hartog’s account is as revelatory in its unexpected turns as in its deep reflection on adolescent selfhood, freedom, governance, and law. It offers a model and a critical reminder that law and legal history belong as much to the young, to wrongdoers and wronged, and to idiosyncratic figures who dare to think and live against the grain as it does to those with economic and political power."

• Introduction(One) The Big Brother(Two) On the Boy Problem(Three) Jack Robbins, Supervisor, and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic(Four) As Clara Laughlin Saw It: War, Energy, and Democracy(Five) Who Was Jack Robbins? Or, Things Unsaid, 1920–1958(Six) Jack Robbins’s Will(Seven) Enter the Lawyers(Eight) And Then What Happened?ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography