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Description
xii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"War Babies: The Generation That Changed America" examines the lives and careers of Americans born between 1939 and 1945. No one has written such a book about this generation. "War Babies" deals especially with musicians and composers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel; with film directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese; with actors like Al Pacino and Robert De Niro; with athlete/activists like Muhammad Ali; with journalists like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; and with politicians like John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi. These are the people who continue to shape our lives and cultures in the 21st century.
Contents
Preface -- chapter 1. A child's eye view of World War II -- chapter 2. Growing up in cold war America -- chapter 3. The limits of McCarthyism -- chapter 4. The war babies and the postwar media -- chapter 5. The music of war babies -- chapter 6. The revolution in movies -- chapter 7. Reshaping America: the politics and journalism of the war baby generation -- Epilogue. The legacy of war babies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
