What Did The Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?

What Did The Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?
Author: Francis Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317365909

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First published in 2010, this book explores the legacy of the baby boomers: the generation who, born in the aftermath of the Second World War, came of age in the radical sixties where for the first time since the War, there was freedom, money, and safe sex. In this book, Francis Beckett argues that what began as the most radical-sounding generation for half a century turned into a random collection of youthful style gurus, sharp-toothed entrepreneurs and management consultants who believed revolution meant new ways of selling things; and Thatcherites, who thought freedom meant free markets, not free people. At last, it found its most complete expression in New Labour. The author argues that the children of the 1960s betrayed the generations that came before and after, and that the true legacy of the swinging decade is in ashes.

Boomer Tales

Boomer Tales
Author: Larue Agresti
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517089214

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Author LaRue Agresti captures the essence of a generation in this vivacious memoir. As related in "Boomer Tales," LaRue was born in Chicago in 1949. Her whimsical narration describes growing up in a wacky Italian family, complete with intriguing background material on her parents and their families, and speaks candidly of her mother's battle with mental illness. After chronicling her early years in Chicago, "Boomer Tales" goes on to provide a window into the Windy City's turbulent social and political climate during the 1960s. In the chapter titled "Key Lime Pie," LaRue offers a vivid time capsule of the pot-infused 1970s hippie culture in the form of original letters sent from the Florida Keys to her sister back home in "Bummer City." But life brings her back to Chicago, and the 80s usher in an emotional time, as she contends with the difficulties of parents afflicted with cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Throughout the book, LaRue provides rich descriptions of her lively hometown, and her inclusion of the music that resonated with her peers helps bring her portrait of a baby boomer vibrantly to life.

Boomers

Boomers
Author: Helen Andrews
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0593086759

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"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of the generational draw? In Boomers, essayist Helen Andrews addresses the Boomer legacy with scrupulous fairness and biting wit. Following the model of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, she profiles six of the Boomers' brightest and best. She shows how Steve Jobs tried to liberate everyone's inner rebel but unleashed our stultifying digital world of social media and the gig economy. How Aaron Sorkin played pied piper to a generation of idealistic wonks. How Camille Paglia corrupted academia while trying to save it. How Jeffrey Sachs, Al Sharpton, and Sonya Sotomayor wanted to empower the oppressed but ended up empowering new oppressors. Ranging far beyond the usual Beatles and Bill Clinton clichés, Andrews shows how these six Boomers' effect on the world has been tragically and often ironically contrary to their intentions. She reveals the essence of Boomerness: they tried to liberate us, and instead of freedom they left behind chaos.

Baby Boomers: 76 Reasons Why It's Great to Be a Boomer

Baby Boomers: 76 Reasons Why It's Great to Be a Boomer
Author: Sanford Holst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780983327998

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The 76 reasons why it's great to be a Boomer are about intriguing people-as well as the many things we had, shows we saw, and songs we heard during our early years. They are discovered in the stories of young Boomers who grew up among us, many of whom went on to do remarkable things. In their experiences we see several different views of the 1960s, 1970s and other years of our life. It makes these times take on a richness and color that can't be seen by taking only one point of view. And it brings us right up to today. Some of these young people were raised by single parents and struggled, while others grew up in well-to-do families. Some lived all those years in one town or city, while others moved with their parents to many states and schools. There were run-ins with the law, marijuana usage and teen pregnancies. This is real life and these are real people. And most of these things were echoed in our own life or the lives of our friends. We all lived through the difficult days of the Vietnam War, the tender nights of first dates and first loves, and shared the euphoric days when new songs came out by bands and artists we knew and loved. Words can't describe it. You have to see the many reasons why it's great to be a Boomer, brought to life by 100 pictures.

A Generation of Sociopaths

A Generation of Sociopaths
Author: Bruce Cannon Gibney
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0316395803

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In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.

Naked in the Woods

Naked in the Woods
Author: Margaret Grundstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780870718076

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In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband to a commune in the backwoods of Oregon. Together with ten friends and an ever-changing mix of strangers, they began to build their vision of utopia. Naked in the Woods chronicles Grundstein's shift from reluctant hippie to committed utopian. Grundstein, (whose husband left, seduced by "freer love") faced tough choices. Could she make it as a single woman in man's country? Did she still want to? Although she reveled in the shared transcendence of communal life, disillusionment slowly eroded the dream. Brotherhood frayed when food became scarce. Rifts formed over land ownership. Dogma and reality clashed. Many people, baby boomers and millennials alike, have romantic notions about the 1960s and 70s. Grundstein's vivid account offers an unflinching, authentic portrait of this iconic and often misreported time in American history. Accompanied by a collection of distinctive photographs she took at the time, Naked in the Woods draws readers into a period of convulsive social change and raises timeless questions: how far must we venture to find the meaning we seek, and is it ever far out enough to escape our ingrained human nature?

Balsamic Dreams

Balsamic Dreams
Author: Joe Queenan
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2002-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312420826

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" ... how a generation with so much promise lost its way ... a hilarious work of incisive social commentary."--Jacket.

One Nation Under AARP

One Nation Under AARP
Author: Frederick R. Lynch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-06-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0520256530

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"Lynch provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the potential for politically mobilizing the large Boomer generation. He successfully mixes anecdotes, scholarship, and statistics to present an entertaining and informative analysis of a timely topic. Anyone desiring to effect change in public policy will welcome this book."—William H. Frey, The Brookings Institution “Fred Lynch has written a nuanced and marvelously comprehensive examination of the state of the Boomer Nation. This book offers an in-depth look at the economic challenges facing Boomers as well as a colorful account of how AARP has tried to rebrand itself to attract the generation that once celebrated the free spirit and hated the ‘establishment’.”—Neil Howe, co-author of The Graying of the Great Powers "A timely and important study of one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America as it redefines its mission and its message to confront the generational challenges of the twenty-first century." —Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation and Resident Historian of the History Channel "Fred Lynch's interpretation is an illuminating and much needed empirical corrective to the confusing and misleading cant that dominates so much of the debate. His scholarship deftly distinguishes between the organization's marketing to an aging society and the diverse realities of that population demographic." —Ted Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy and The Politics of Medicare

Hippie Modernism

Hippie Modernism
Author: Greg Castillo
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2015
Genre: Arts and society
ISBN: 9781935963097

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Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia accompanies an exhibition of the same title examining the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal and professional norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus Rucker Co and ONYX; the media-based installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances staged by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz Magazine and The Whole Earth Catalog and books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much, much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the experimental graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan of USCO, Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus Rucker Co, Ken Isaacs, Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX, Franco Raggi of Global Tools, Tony Martin, Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City, and new scholarly writings, this book explores the hybrid conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.