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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.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: xx, 263 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781611856118 (hardback)
  • 9781611855739 (paperback)
  • 161185573X (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818.607 23
LOC classification:
  • HN59 .O69 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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