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Boomer nation : the largest and richest generation ever and how it changed America
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- Creator
- Steve Gillon
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Free Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- x, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780743229470, 0743229479
- OCLC
- ocm54046735
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-343) and index.
- 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