A decade-by-decade exploration of the politics, people, science, culture, and demographics that have characterized the Baby Boom generation, commonly defined as those born between 1946 and 1964.
Angry after hearing her father paid for her brother to attend Yale University, an opportunity she missed because he made a bad investment at the same time she was applying, Washington spin doctor Cassandra Devine suggests baby boomers euthanize themselves by the age of seventy-five for an incentive, an idea that catches the nation's attention.
Presents a comprehensive examination of how American youth changed the culture of the 1960s, looking at the civil rights movement, the hippie generation, feminism, and anti-war demonstrators.
