Baby Boom: People and Perspectives
This engaging collection of essays explores the many ways Americans of every race, class, gender, and political leaning experienced the Baby Boom.

This revealing new work goes inside the Baby Boom generation to look at how everyday people within the boomer demographic changed—and were changed by—the course of American history.

Baby Boom: People and Perspectives does not focus on one single historic moment, but rather follows different groups within the Baby Boom generation as they move through history. From the generation gap of the 1950s to the civil rights movement, from Vietnam and the counterculture of the 1960s to Watergate and the Reagan era, and from the Clinton years to September 11th and the recent resurgence of conservatism, this insightful social history shows how Baby Boomers across the breadth of American society experienced and impacted the same historic events differently.
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Baby Boom: People and Perspectives
This engaging collection of essays explores the many ways Americans of every race, class, gender, and political leaning experienced the Baby Boom.

This revealing new work goes inside the Baby Boom generation to look at how everyday people within the boomer demographic changed—and were changed by—the course of American history.

Baby Boom: People and Perspectives does not focus on one single historic moment, but rather follows different groups within the Baby Boom generation as they move through history. From the generation gap of the 1950s to the civil rights movement, from Vietnam and the counterculture of the 1960s to Watergate and the Reagan era, and from the Clinton years to September 11th and the recent resurgence of conservatism, this insightful social history shows how Baby Boomers across the breadth of American society experienced and impacted the same historic events differently.
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Baby Boom: People and Perspectives

Baby Boom: People and Perspectives

by Rusty Monhollon (Editor)
Baby Boom: People and Perspectives

Baby Boom: People and Perspectives

by Rusty Monhollon (Editor)

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This engaging collection of essays explores the many ways Americans of every race, class, gender, and political leaning experienced the Baby Boom.

This revealing new work goes inside the Baby Boom generation to look at how everyday people within the boomer demographic changed—and were changed by—the course of American history.

Baby Boom: People and Perspectives does not focus on one single historic moment, but rather follows different groups within the Baby Boom generation as they move through history. From the generation gap of the 1950s to the civil rights movement, from Vietnam and the counterculture of the 1960s to Watergate and the Reagan era, and from the Clinton years to September 11th and the recent resurgence of conservatism, this insightful social history shows how Baby Boomers across the breadth of American society experienced and impacted the same historic events differently.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216051053
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 02/09/2010
Series: Perspectives in American Social History
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 7 MB
Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Rusty Monhollon is associate professor of history and director of Masters in Humanities at Hood College, Frederick, MD.
Rusty Monhollon is associate professor of history and director of Masters in Humanities at Hood College, Frederick, MD.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction ix

Introduction xiii

Acknowledgments xxxiii

About the Editor and Contributors xxxv

Chronology xxxvii

1 Baby Boomers and the Family C S. O'Brien 1

2 Women and the Baby Boom Kimberly Wilmot Voss 19

3 Students and the Baby Boom E. Jan Jacobs 37

4 African Americans Rusty Monhollon 55

5 Hispanic Americans Theodore W. Eversole 73

6 Poverty and the Baby Boom Rusty Monhollon 91

7 Religion and the Baby Boomers Frank A. Salamone 105

8 The Counterculture Scott MacFarlane 117

9 The Organization Man Matthew Johnson 133

10 Suburbanites and Suburbia Rusty Monhollon 149

Primary Documents 165

Reference 209

Bibliography 223

Index 243

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