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The Baby Boomers [Hardcover]

Paul Charles Light (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1988

The baby boom generation has been the most analyzed, overgeneralized, stereotyped, and caricatured generation--and the least understood. This book goes beyond the usual perceptions to address the generation's real concerns, political, economic, and social.

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In this study of "the most analyzed, overgeneralized, stereotyped, and caricatured generation" in American history, Light, a social scientist and special adviser to U.S. Senator John Glenn, focuses primarily on the political agendaor lack of itof this politically uncommitted generation. Using wide-ranging demographic research that includes public opinion surveys, he tries to explain how baby boomers have been shaped by their unique social and political history. He discusses their differences from other generations, as well as their very real inter -generational differences, often glossed over in popular accounts. Of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and students of popular culture. Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., N.J.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

Hardcover: 319 pages
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; 1st edition (October 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393025241
ISBN-13: 978-0393025248
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,300,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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real baby boomers, southern baby boomers, black baby boomers, younger baby boomers, breadwinner system, youngest baby boomers, average baby boomer, young baby boomers, earnings curve, more baby boomers, small generations

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Social Security, United States, World War, Star Wars, Supreme Court, Vietnam War, Great Depression, Gary Hart, Washington Post, Daniel Yankelovich, Martin Luther King, New York Times Poll, Great Society, John Kennedy, Patrick Caddell, William Schneider, Southeast Asia, Harris Poll, White House, American Demographics, James Sundquist, University of Michigan, Landon Jones, Madison Avenue, Florence Skelly

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Welcome to the Jungle: The Why Behind "Generation X" by Geoffrey T. Holtz on 5 pages
Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America by Steve Gillon on 4 pages
One Church, Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church by Gary L. McIntosh in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy by Leonard Steinhorn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back by Eleanor Agnew on page 55, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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