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Author O'Rourke, P. J.

Title The baby boom : how it got that way and it wasn't my fault and I'll never do it again / P.J. O'Rourke.

Publication Info. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2014]
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  818.54 O'ROURKE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.244 O'ROURKE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  817 ORO    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.244 O'ROURKE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.244 ORO    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  305.244 O'ROURKE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.2409 O'ROURKE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.244 OR    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Summary With his typical wit and keen analysis, O'Rourke looks at the way the post-war generation somehow came of age by never quite growing up and somehow created a better society by turning society upside down.
Contents A regular old Baby Boomer speaks -- A good and happy place -- Life as we imagined it -- In the doldrums of fun -- Mere anarchy is loosed -- Ends and means -- All that glisters -- Agents of influence -- The prelude -- The man is father to the child -- The great disconnect -- Era of good feelings -- The Baby Boom's Garden of Eden -- thanks for the snake -- There shall no sign be given unto this generation -- Dawn's early light -- Real life -- Ripeness is all -- Big damn messy bundle of joy.
Subject Baby boom generation -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Baby boom generation. (OCoLC)fst00824987
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Humorous fiction.
Nonfiction.
Humor.
ISBN 9780802121974 (hardcover)
0802121977 (hardcover)
9780802193070 (ebk.)
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