X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog

In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called "slackers"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.

• Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
• A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
• Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials
• 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
• Passed Over and Pissed Off: The Overlooked Leadership Talents of Generation X
• The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
• X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story
• Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
• The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown