Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation

Landon Jones's first and still-definitive account of the origins and impact of the baby-boom generation. It coined the phrase "Baby Boomer." Covers demographic causes of the baby-boom, its impact on the decades of the 1950s through the end of the century in subjects areas including family formation, employment, women's roles, sexuality, television, drug use, crime rates, real-estate prices, babies' names, SAT scores, the Vietnam War, and the aging of the population.