Hollywood's AmericaSteven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive director of the University of Texas Systems Institute for Transformational Learning. He is the author and editor of fourteen books, including The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood, Hucks Raft: A History of American Childhood, and Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. He is the editor of African American Voices (4th edition,