The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers - 8/1 release
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The impact of the baby boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) on the past three-quarters of a century cannot be underestimated; these 76 million Americans reshaped the social, economic, and political contours of the country and much of the world, and continue to do so. Despite their rise to power, however, the reputation of the generation has recently fallen precipitously. Many members of younger generations hold strong negative feelings toward boomers, convinced that the latter compromised the future of the former. Baby boomers are primarily responsible for most if not all the world’s problems, this thinking goes; the generation’s narcissism and consumptive ways have caused major, perhaps irreparable, damage to the nation and planet, both economically and environmentally. Most boomers, however, defend their history, considering such views. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a fact-based, objective history of baby boomers to contextualize this generational divide which represents a key theme in contemporary American culture.
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Officially available on 8/1 but still time to get in your pre-order. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Baby-Boomers/dp/1527584941/ref=sr_1_1?c...
Intriguingly priced @ $101.95
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Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run
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Will they be doing lay-a-way
Will they be doing a lay-a-way option on this book, for millennials?
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How can you have your young
How can you have your young adult years in the three best decades that have ever been 70's, 80's, and 90's and then decide that Trump is the answer?
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Some of us are sorry and want
Some of us are sorry and want to apologize for letting this happen.
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It really doesn't matter when
It really doesn't matter when you were born or what "generation" you belong to. You have no control over it, just as you have no control over the color of your skin. We "hippies" from the 60s tried to make our world, and the future, the best it could be. Yes, we failed to produce a perfect society. We were only a minority within the greater boom.
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> the generation’s narcissism
> the generation’s narcissism and consumptive ways have caused major, perhaps irreparable, damage to the nation and planet
If this book is well-researched, it should acknowledge that the term "conspicuous consumption" was coined by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class. It should also make clear that the post-WWII economic boom, which is when conspicuous consumption became a mass phenomenon, was initiated by the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation while most Boomers were still in diapers, or hadn't been born yet.
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Can we hope for a forward by
Can we hope for a forward by St. Mark?