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O'Rourke, P. J.,

The baby boom : how it got that way and it wasn't my fault and I'll never do it again / P.J. O'Rourke. - xx, 263 pages ; 24 cm

A regular old Baby Boomer speaks -- A good and happy place -- Life as we imagined it -- In the doldrums of fun -- Mere anarchy is loosed -- Ends and means -- All that glisters -- Agents of influence -- The prelude -- The man is father to the child -- The great disconnect -- Era of good feelings -- The Baby Boom's Garden of Eden -- thanks for the snake -- There shall no sign be given unto this generation -- Dawn's early light -- Real life -- Ripeness is all -- Big damn messy bundle of joy.

With his typical wit and keen analysis, O'Rourke looks at the way the post-war generation somehow came of age by never quite growing up and somehow created a better society by turning society upside down.

ISBN: 9781611856118 (hardback) 9781611855739 (paperback) 161185573X (paperback)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Baby boom generation--History.--United States
Baby boom generation--History.--United States
Baby boom generation--History.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social conditions--20th century.

LC Class. No.: HN59 / .O69 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 818.607