The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia write by Martin Gitlin. This book was released on 2011-03-03. The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history. Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture. The members of this generation experienced some of the most tumultuous times in American history; indeed, the Boomers helped create these pivotal eras. From the advent of rock and roll to disco and rap, from the sexual revolution to the arrival of AIDS, and from race riots to the election of a black president, Baby Boomers have seen it all. Through nearly 100 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia gives later generations insight into the contributions of the Baby Boomers, and it helps members of that generation better contextualize their own experiences. Included entries are written in a clear and engaging manner, covering politics and activism, entertainment, the economy, gender roles, arts, pop culture, sports, religion, drug and alcohol use, and many other subject areas.
Baby Boomers and Popular Culture
Baby Boomers and Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baby Boomers and Popular Culture write by Brian Cogan. This book was released on 2014-11-25. Baby Boomers and Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" Baby Boomer generation on America. Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping, irreversible changes throughout American society—but probably not in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the paths the members of this generation took to come to power—and how they came to terms with that power—are also apparent. This single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments, and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward. The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism, narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being "Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and philosophy surveys.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Expectations write by Landon Y. Jones. This book was released on 2008-04-02. Great Expectations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first and still-definitive account of the origins, impact, culture, and future of the baby-boom generation, the most influential in American history.
Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers
Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers write by Catherine Bonvalet. This book was released on 2014-10-10. Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book demonstrates how their aspirations for leisure and consumption converged with family responsibilities and obligations. It shows how the baby boomers emerged from an authoritative upbringing to challenge some of the traditional assumptions of the family, such as marriage and cohabitation. The rise of feminism led by the baby-boomers is examined, together with its impact on family forms and structures. The book shows how women’s trajectories veered between the two extremes of family and employment, swerving between the models of stay-at-home mother and working woman. It demonstrates how new family configurations such as solo parenting, and recomposed families were adopted by the baby boomers. Today, as they enter into retirement, the baby-boomers remain closely involved in the lives of their children and parents, although relationships with elderly parents are maintained primarily through a sense of duty and obligation. The book concludes that the baby boomers have both been influenced by and actors to the changes and transformations that have occurred to family life. They reconciled and continue to reconcile, individualism with family obligations. As grandparents often with an ageing parent still alive, the baby boomers wish to keep the independence that has been the hallmark of their generation whilst not abandoning family life.
In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation
In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation write by Rick Bava. This book was released on 2015-06-12. In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation," by Rick Bava, is an intriguing look at one of the most interesting generations in American history. Rick Bava traveled the country for two years seeking the thoughts, opinions, and ideas of Baby Boomers from all walks of life and socioeconomic classes to create this inspiring commentary about the Baby Boomer Generation. The author, himself a Baby Boomer, brings his own unique experience to the book, as well as capturing the stories and perspectives of the hundreds of Baby Boomers he interviewed. The book looks at where Baby Boomers have been, their rich history, and the cultural aspects so important to the Baby Boomer Generation. This book covers the topics of most importance to Baby Boomers today and the issues most on their minds as they look towards the future. Baby Boomers will identify with what they read in "In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation," and those wishing to study the generation will gain insight from this book.
