Will You Please Just Go Out and Play!: Before Safety Helmets, Sunscreen, and play dates: Fun with Cod liver oil, lighter fluid, TNT salutes, and other - Paperback

by Edmund E. Jacobitti Ph. D. (Author)

When Mothers wanted to get their kids out their hair, they sent them out to play. Little did they know what mischief, shenanigans, and devilry, the little darlings could concoct. If you long to relive the childhood days of the 1940s before kids were wrapped in helmets, sunscreen, safety belts, and bubble wrap, when a prank meant "boys will be boys," then you have just grown old but not grown up and this is the book for you. Just don't let the grandchildren read it. Jacobitti recalls here a childhood filled with toys like TNT salutes, lighter fluid, 10-cent gliders, CO2 cartridges, and other things that went bang

Author Biography

Jacobitti was born near Newark, New Jersey in 1938. He has worked as a commercial fisherman in the North Atlantic, a cook, a laboratory technician for the Chemical Corporation of America, a life insurance underwriter, and various other odd jobs before and while attending college and graduate school. He earned a BA in literature from Union College in 1962, an MA from the State University of New York at Albany in Political Science in 1963, a second MA in Political Theory from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1965 and, in 1972, earned his Ph.D in European Cultural History also from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has lived for many years in Italy, France, and England and taught at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville for twenty-eight years. He has published scholarly books and articles on political theory, historiography and evolutionary theory. He retired in 1997 and lives in Florida where he writes, flies small planes, and continues to explore the world with his wife and friends. He has a son and two grandchildren.