How Youth Changed America in the 60's Laban Carrick Hill Little Brown 2007 Finally. Now we're getting somewhere. In an amazingly clear and concise 175 pages or so the history and influence of the Boomer generation is laid out for a young adult audience. Starting with the post-war population boom and suburban expansion, the book focuses on the various key elements and movements that brought
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Erik P. Kraft Little, Brown 2007 This is the story of Tom Mayo, nickname Miracle Wimp. Sixteen years old, further down on the pecking order, working his way through the vicissitudes of social life in high school. Should have been in Computer Animation, wound up in wood shop. Where is this story going? Good question. Page by page there's a new vignettes, each no longer than a page or two,
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Thanks for pointing this one out. I'll be thrilled to know I'm bringing the Black Panthers into the library!
As a gen x-er I refuse to take any responsibility (isn't that what we do best :)?) for any of the messes we are in. It has all been the fault of people much older and richer than me. I personally blame folks in power during the Reagan years. "Trees cause pollution." "Ketchup is a vegetable." On the other hand, this sounds like a good book!
I'll be reading this one soon, but I wondered if you ran across any factual errors. A colleague of mine claims to have found several. Is this your experience as well?
Charlotte, as a person born on the cusp between the official boomers and the x-ers (the years between 1958 and 1963, a group with no representation and no name yet) I would like to refuse any responsibility for the go-go 80's. Sadly, many of the in-roads made during the Reagan era came about due to the passive or tacit approval of the youth during that time. A decade before Nixon claimed he
I take your point...But I hope that perhaps generation Y might be becoming less accepting of the status quo as it ages, and the price of gas goes up.
And I'm hoping gen-Y bucks the status quo because the the price of gas goes up, and up, and stays up.
Fuse, sorry about the delay. I went back over the book and cannot really say I found factual errors that I was aware of. I'd be curious to know what they were. Perhaps they didn't appear wrong to me because I learned the same errors... or was too young to verify information first hand? Please, do tell, let us all know!
I would also be interested in hearing about any inaccuracies. I tried to be as careful as possible when writing the book. The only mistake I've found is one that the proofreader missed. Maynard G. Krebs is incorrectly called Maynard Grebs. Somehow the period, space and K were dropped in the layout process.BTW, my wife Elise Whittemore-Hill designed the book. It would be so good without her.