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373 pages ; 22 cm
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"I hope you get drafted, I hope you go to Vietnam, I hope you get shot, and I hope you die there. Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender. She would marry a fellow antiwar activist and end up immigrating to Canada. He would fight in Vietnam and come home to build an American dream kind of life -- a great career, a trophy wife, and a life of wealth and privilege....
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"With a sharp sense of justice and humor, Susan J. Douglas confronts ageism against women in media, work, and politics. In the 1970s, baby boom women began to redefine women's lives and opportunities. Now, that they are the largest American female generation over fifty, Susan J. Douglas argues that these feminist boomers are again challenging outdated stereotypes, and reinventing what it means to be older and female. This is a demographic revolution,...
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ix, 325 pages ; 23 cm
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Nine million baby boomers have already skipped retirement to enjoy meaningful work instead, and another 31 million are hoping to join them soon. Covering everything those readers will need to know, this road map points to passion, purpose, and a paycheck in the second half of life.
Provides guidelines to starting a second career during middle age, including tips on how to plan the transition from one career to another, salary and education requirements,...
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439 pages ; 24 cm
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Miranda Meadowe lives a relatively solitary life in her rustic country home, but her world dramatically changes when she invites a group of her oldest friends to move in with her. In the beginning, their reunion is joyous. They laugh, dance, drink, behave badly, and being to reclaim the things they thought would be theirs forever. But as the days pass, long-forgotten grudges resurface and new tensions emerge, and they discover that their bond may...
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Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation's coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap! a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her...
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viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Today's Millennials--well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twenty-somethings--are at risk...
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xxxiii, 430 pages ; 24 cm
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Gibney shows how America was hijacked by a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts-- acting, in other words, as sociopaths-- they turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. In the 2030s damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible. Gibney argues...
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The months since the spring of 2008 have not been kind to the American economy or to the retirement accounts of millions of Americans. The aggregate worth of 401(K) and IRA accounts dropped by more than $3 trillion dollars and the worth of private homes, the nest egg counted on by so many for retirement security, fell by trillions of dollars more. This film undertakes the mission to help older citizens do better with a bit less and to navigate tougher...
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342 pages ; 24 cm
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Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride...
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xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm
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"A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means for American politics and economics. Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. How much longer...
16) I.O.U.S.A
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1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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"I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together archival footage, economic data and candid interviews with Warren...
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703 pages ; 25 cm
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Describes a group of friends, black and white, growing up radical amid the turbulence of the sixties and seventies, following them from their 1960 sixth-grade class in Great Neck to their involvement in civil rights and peace movements.
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155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Will You Be Prepared When You're Sixty-Four? Your retirement years should be a magic carpet ride, not a grand illusion. And with enough proper planning and consideration, you may be able to enjoy strawberry fields for the rest of your life. In The Baby Boomer's Guide to a Rockin' and Rollin' Retirement, Danny Smith mixes retirement planning with Pink Floyd's "Money" to offer an entertaining and informative look at retirement planning. As a Baby Boomer...
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