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Author Gillon, Steven M.

Title Boomer nation : the largest and richest generation ever and how it changed America / Steve Gillon.

Imprint New York : Free Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Non-Fiction  305.24 G417b 2004    ---  Available
Description x, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index.
Contents Introduction : the long boom -- Cast of characters -- pt. 1. The cult of youth : 1945-1978. The Boomer generation -- The Vietnam division -- Growing pains -- Finding God -- pt. 2. The great shift : 1978-1992. The prolonged adolescence of Donny Deutsch -- The way we wish we lived now -- The new power politics -- The "second stage" and other struggles for women -- The new fundamentalism -- Boomer culture -- pt. 3. Boomer nation : 1992-2002. Gaining control : at what cost? -- The new bosses -- New challenges, lost opportunities -- Epilogue : we are all Boomers now.
Subject Baby boom generation -- United States.
Baby boom generation -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
ISBN 0743229479

 
    
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