Caldwell, Christopher
Summary: "A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.24 CALCrandell, Susan.
Summary: "A book about how yesterday's baby boomers are becoming today's adventurous midlife pioneers, discovering exciting new opportunities for growth in work, play, family, and happiness, by the founding editor of MORE magazine."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Wellness 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging CrandellDouglas, Susan J. (Susan Jeanne)
Summary: "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American female generation over fifty, Susan J. Douglas argues that these feminist boomers are again challenging outdated stereotypes, and reinventing what it means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging DouglasKinsley, Michael E.
Summary: "Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KINGibney, Bruce
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 GIBSummary: Sixty Things To Do When You Turn Sixty is a collection of essays that speaks to the reader who has or will soon turn 60. The collection includes essays that are practical, covering subjects like health care, fitness, finance, and business, and also essays that are more reflective, more whimsical, or more reassuring ? or just plain laugh-out-loud funny. All royalties are donated to cancer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ronnie Sellers Productions, Inc. 2006
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Summary: Using extensive interviews with people ages 25 to 70, editor Isay shows that we're far from alone in our struggles to make this adult relationship work. Isay charts a course through the confusing and often painful interactions parents and children can face, offering up groundbreaking insights and moving stories that will inspire those in even the toughest situations. You'll learn why silence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation IsayKotlikoff, Laurence J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 KOTBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I.O.U.Summary: This documentary examines the personal and social impact of the impending retirement of America's 77 million Baby Boomers. By Emmy-Winning filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey, Director of A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OPEBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide by age seventy-five, a twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcontent catches the attention of an ambitious senator seeking the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner 12 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCIverson, Jon.
Contents: Wills -- Probate -- Trusts -- Living trusts --Gift, estate and inheritance taxes -- Long-term care insurance -- Medicaid assistance for the elderly -- Fiduciaries -- Executor -- Trustee -- Conservator -- Guardians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stonemark Pub. 2005
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Summary: "At 78 million strong, baby-boomers have become America's largest demographic. Here, Judd debunks society's harmful myths about aging and finds more meaningful ways we can define ourselves so we can enjoy (rather than dread) getting older. She offers tips on finding simplicity, streamlining possessions, disengaging from "energy vampires," and discovering the most effective ways to support your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 JUDThomas, Rosie.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, William H.
Summary: "A new life phase is beginning to emerge within our society. When the Baby Boom generation came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, they jump-started a cultural revolution that shaped today's society. Now, many feel they are living a life of frenzied disharmony. This out-of-balance feeling is a signal that you are ready for your second coming of age, your life beyond adulthood. [This book]...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 THOWilber, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILFarrell, Chris
Summary: "The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and society....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 FARO'Brien, Tim
Summary: Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: A portrait of the baby boom generation celebrates the bad trips, questionable politics, and outrageous styles of the author and his generation while analyzing how the boom shaped contemporary America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014