Boomer nation : the largest and richest generation ever and how it changed America /
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Author / Creator: | Gillon, Steven M. |
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Imprint: | New York : Free Press, c2004. |
Description: | x, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5274441 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Long Boom
- Cast of Characters
- Part I. The Cult of Youth: 1945-1978
- 1. The Boomer Generation
- 2. The Vietnam Division
- 3. Growing Pains
- 4. Finding God
- Part II. The Great Shift: 1978-1992
- 5. The Prolonged Adolescence of Donny Deutsch
- 6. The Way We Wish We Lived Now
- 7. The New Power Politics
- 8. The "Second Stage" and Other Struggles for Women
- 9. The New Fundamentalism
- 10. Boomer Culture
- Part III. Boomer Nation: 1992-2004
- 11. Gaining Control: At What Cost?
- 12. The New Bosses
- 13. New Challenges; Lost Opportunities
- Epilogue: We Are All Boomers Now
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author