Download or read book Brooklyn Boomer written by Martin H. Levinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin H. Levinson lived in Brooklyn from his birth in 1946 to 1962, the height of the baby boom following World War II. He grew up two blocks from Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, which boasts alums such as Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and chess-wiz Bobby Fischer. The author's personal recollections of his middle-class childhood in Brooklyn during the 1950s alternate with chapters detailing seminal cultural events of that era including the advent of television, fast-food restaurants, big cars with fins; desegregation and the white flight to the suburbs; rock and roll, beatniks, hula hoops, The Kinsey Reports, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Playboy, and much more. Part memoir, part social history, Brooklyn Boomer offers a captivating portrait of Brooklyn and America in the mid-twentieth Century.

Download or read book The Baby Boomers Grow Up written by Susan Krauss Whitbourne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this volume is to examine development in middle age from the perspective of baby boomers -- a unique cohort in the United States defined as those individuals born from 1946 to 1962. This is the largest cohort ever to enter middle age in Western society, and they currently represent approximately one-third of the total U.S. population. The Baby Boomers Grow Up provides contemporary and comprehensive perspectives of development of the baby boomer cohort as they proceed through midlife. Baby boomers continue to exert a powerful impact on the media, fiction, movies, and even popular music, just as they were an imposing force in society from the time of their entry into youth. As these individuals enter the years normally considered to represent midlife, they are redefining how we as a society regard adults in their middle and later years. This volume features several unique aspects. First, the literature reviewed focuses specifically on research relevant to baby boomers and their development as adults, rather than a global perspective on middle age. Second, the volume takes into account the diversity within the boomer cohort, such as social class, race, and education. In addition, quantitative and qualitative developmental changes occurring from the forties to the fifties and the sixties are considered. Differences in leading and trailing edge boomers are likewise addressed. Ideal for researchers in adult development and graduate seminars on adult development, The Baby Boomers Grow Up will also appeal to adult educators, human resource personnel, health professionals and service providers, and clinical psychologists and counselors.

Download or read book The Baby Boomers Grow Up written by Susan Krauss Whitbourne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this volume is to examine development in middle age from the perspective of baby boomers -- a unique cohort in the United States defined as those individuals born from 1946 to 1962. This is the largest cohort ever to enter middle age in Western society, and they currently represent approximately one-third of the total U.S. population. The Baby Boomers Grow Up provides contemporary and comprehensive perspectives of development of the baby boomer cohort as they proceed through midlife. Baby boomers continue to exert a powerful impact on the media, fiction, movies, and even popular music, just as they were an imposing force in society from the time of their entry into youth. As these individuals enter the years normally considered to represent midlife, they are redefining how we as a society regard adults in their middle and later years. This volume features several unique aspects. First, the literature reviewed focuses specifically on research relevant to baby boomers and their development as adults, rather than a global perspective on middle age. Second, the volume takes into account the diversity within the boomer cohort, such as social class, race, and education. In addition, quantitative and qualitative developmental changes occurring from the forties to the fifties and the sixties are considered. Differences in leading and trailing edge boomers are likewise addressed. Ideal for researchers in adult development and graduate seminars on adult development, The Baby Boomers Grow Up will also appeal to adult educators, human resource personnel, health professionals and service providers, and clinical psychologists and counselors.

Download or read book A Tongue in the Sink written by Dennis Fried and published by Eiffel Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous memoir about growing up in a small town in the 1950s, and reflections on the changing nature of childhood and on aging.

Download or read book A Baby Boomer s Guide to I Remember When written by Bill Reid and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELF IMPROVEMENT Remember dad saying that he had it so bad he walked fi ve miles uphill to school both ways? Well, it's time for us baby boomers to make sure our kids know how life was for us when we were growing up in a life before Facebook, Twitter, microwaves, and color TV. This whimsical book takes us back in time and clearly demonstrates exactly how life was for baby boomers. Can you imagine having to leave the couch to change the channel on the TV? Can you? We baby boomers can. Sheesh. Short and succinct, The Baby Boomer's Guide will allow boomers to remember growing up, allow the grandchildren to listen in wonder, and give the children another opportunity to roll their eyes the way they did in high school when they knew everything. Guaranteed to bring a smile to a boomer's face, or the author will offer a deep apology. Guaranteed to bring a smile to a boomer'sface, or the author will offer a deep apology.

Download or read book Growing Up as a Baby Boomer written by John Kenny Crane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Greenway is Crane's favorite hero. In this book he matures from a five-year-old disappointed in his father's ethics to a forty-five-year-old owner of a British inn, The Young Black Horse, in which he is "expected" to stage an annual pigeon race for his "regulars." These stories, some poignant, most hilarious, demonstrate that all of us undergo the same tests in becoming adults--disillusionment, loss of innocence, and summer jobs--learning that the world we are entering is different from the one we expected. Greenway's biggest test comes at 16 when he completely fails at operating a roller coaster.

Download or read book Baby Boomer written by Gerard Thompson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any Baby Boomer and they will tell you they were 'the best years of our lives!' Despite the Cold War, the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Korea and Vietnam and, oh, a ferociously funny mother, the late 1940's, 50's and early 60's were Boomer Halcyon Days. Baby Boomer, Tales of a 'Boomer' Childhood at the Arse End of the World, is an Australian Baby Boomer story that will delight in its memories of long summer days, and personal freedom that people today can only dream about. Boomer youngsters were able to run and play without supervision almost anywhere with no concerns other than playing and enjoying friends and family. It also honours parents and a simpler time and highlights those awkward, growing and changing years. Self deprecating, Gerard Thompson is journalist who grew up in Hobart, Tasmania, at the bottom of Australia. Today, he recalls those memories from more tropical climes - South East Queensland. If you are a Baby Boomer, you will love the memories this read will reignite. If you are from another generation, it will tell you about a precious time in our modern evolution. You will love this light hearted, funny read about one Baby Boomer's unusual story.

Download or read book American Baby Boomer written by Lucas Carter and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the story of one individual who was born and grew up in the United States of America during the Baby Boomer generation. It begins by introducing his parents, who are proud Norwegian immigrants who move the United States for a better life. Soon after coming to America, Michael Larsen is born in California. The story follows Michael's life from birth though high school and speaks to personal events and situations that happen in his personal life during this period. It also addresses actual world and national events as they happened in real time. The story progresses through his life as a soldier in the army and him being sent to Vietnam. Once home from the war, he goes to college, meeting new friends, falling in love, and marrying. Family situations, jobs, social status, and political views continue to change as Michael ages and steps into changing technology, ever-increasing unrest throughout the world, and the new age of terrorism. The book ends with Michael retiring and reflecting on his life's accomplishments and regrets as he enters the winter of his life. The book chronicles one person's story growing up in the generation known as the baby boomers. There are still 75 million other stories out there that are still untold.

Download or read book Boomers written by Helen Andrews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of the generational draw? In Boomers, essayist Helen Andrews addresses the Boomer legacy with scrupulous fairness and biting wit. Following the model of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, she profiles six of the Boomers' brightest and best. She shows how Steve Jobs tried to liberate everyone's inner rebel but unleashed our stultifying digital world of social media and the gig economy. How Aaron Sorkin played pied piper to a generation of idealistic wonks. How Camille Paglia corrupted academia while trying to save it. How Jeffrey Sachs, Al Sharpton, and Sonya Sotomayor wanted to empower the oppressed but ended up empowering new oppressors. Ranging far beyond the usual Beatles and Bill Clinton clichés, Andrews shows how these six Boomers' effect on the world has been tragically and often ironically contrary to their intentions. She reveals the essence of Boomerness: they tried to liberate us, and instead of freedom they left behind chaos.

Download or read book Growing Up Sandy written by Sandra L. Cunningham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the memories from my childhood. Born in early 1946, I was part of the largest generation yet born - The Baby Boomers. Here you will find the simple memories of growing up without televisions, cell phones and computers. The games we played and the friendships we made. From hobo fires and polywogs to camping and Girl Scouts and marching in a high school band, this book will lead you through my life to my wedding day at the age of twenty-one. You just might find your own adventures within the cover of this book.

Download or read book Growing Up In The OP written by Richard W Paradise and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous account of growing up in the midwestern suburban enclaves that sprung up during the height of the Baby Boomer era. The author details common coming-of-age occurrences - first job, first car, first love, to name but a few - with warmth and wit, bringing us full circle to the all but unrecognizable reality of 2020.

Download or read book A Generation of Sociopaths written by Bruce Cannon Gibney and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.

Download or read book Growing up in Boom Times written by Chris Brockman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as we Baby Boomers have put our stamp on our world, our growing up has had a profound effect on us. We rebelled, protested, turned on. We bridged the simplicity of our parents' youth and the beguiling complexity of our own children's. Before all that, though, we played outside a lot and without fear, we ate dinner at home with our families, we found good things to watch on our three or four T.V. channels, and we managed to have great fun close to home with just our bikes, our dogs, and our friends.

Download or read book Post War Childhood written by Simon Webb and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthier than they are now. They wandered about all day; only returning home at teatime when they were hungry. Nobody worried about health and safety or 'stranger danger' in those days and no serious harm ever befell children as a result. In Post-War Childhood, Simon Webb examines the facts and figures behind the myth of children's carefree lives in the postwar years, finding that such things as the freedom to roam the streets and fields came at a terrible price. In 1965, for example, despite there being far fewer cars in Britain, 45 times as many children were knocked down and killed on the roads as now die in this way each year. Simon Webb presents a 'warts and all' portrait of British childhood in the years following the end of the Second World War. He demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, it was by any measure a far more hazardous and less pleasant time to be a child, than is the case in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book American Baby Boomer written by Lucas Carter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story about one individual who was born and grew up as a baby boomer in the United States. It begins by introducing his parents, who are Norwegian and grew up in Canada. They move to the United States, and soon after, Michael Larsen is born in California. The book begins by following Michael’s life from birth through high school and speaks to situations and events that happened in his personal life during that period. It also addresses actual world and national events as they happened in real time. The story progresses through his life as a soldier in the army and being sent to Vietnam. Once home from the war, he goes to college at Fresno State, meeting new friends, falling in love, and marrying. Family situations, jobs, social status, and political views continue to change as Michael ages and steps into changing technology, ever-increasing unrest throughout the world, and the new age of terrorism. The book ends with Michael retiring and reflecting on his life’s accomplishments and regrets as he enters the winter of his life. This book chronicles one person’s story of growing up in the generation known as baby boomers. There are seventy-five million other stories still untold; this is just one.

Download or read book Baby Boomers and Popular Culture written by Brian Cogan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Life of an Average Baby Boomer written by Brian Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did every Baby Boomer achieve greatness in their life? No they didn't.Some just went along for the ride and achieved small things on a small scale and what a ride it was. From the baby boom in the late 40's, 50's and early 60's which was the catalyst for the dramatic changes to society over the next 50 years to changes to traditions, government focus, societal expectations, war and peace, education, arts, science, cultures almost across the board and changes bring high levels of stress.So how did the average baby boomer cope? How did it affect their everyday lives and how did they react to the changes and cope with stress?Baby Boomer advocate Brian Murphy brings a wealth of experience and research covering a 20 year advocacy period in his book "The Life of an Average Baby Boomer".Brian is an educator and life mentor and is passionate about 'my generation" and has consistently informed Boomers about the big picture of what lies ahead for us all as Australia Ages and how it will affect us as individuals through public presentations and his baby boomer web site www.bonza.com.auYou will learn a lot from the book gaining new information that is relevant to you as an individual and you will also be motivated to plan for the future and move forward in your life.He shares his life memories freely and in an honest and simplistic manner that many will be able to relate to as average Boomers. His adventurous childhood and teen years, bad school experiences, his call-up for national service and related court appearances as a Conscientious Objector, mates and marriages, parenting experiences, retirement and his years in New Zealand founding and running Grey Skills and the subsequent efforts on his return to OZ in informing and educating government and society of the pitfalls of the Boomer generation and our influence on welfare, health and aged care budgets.The Baby Boomer generation (born 1945-1964) has dominated the world for over 50 years due to the demands of their sheer numbers on government resources. Initially it was the costs of hospitals and health education at birth then education as they reached school age and now as they age welfare, health and age care.This is the story of the life of an average Australian Baby Boomer from his birth to growing up in suburbia and the many hurdles this generation faced on their life's journey followed through his story. The turbulent teen years, early marriage, parenting, work, the Vietnam War and his attempts to assist 'my generation'. In conclusion an outline of the author's advocacy work through BONZA and how it has assisted Boomers in their transition to retirement and his opinion that without mature age policies for older workers in the workplace and one stop shops focusing on the needs of Boomers in all major cities and regional areas then the generation will struggle.