{"product_id":"9780312326418","title":"The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lenny Steinhorn presents compelling evidence that Boomers significantly shaped—and improved—their times. This is a counterintuitive examination of a generation that is far more complex and far more influential than is commonly believed.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Frank Senso, former CNN Washington bureau chief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the Greatest Generation deserves our praise for surviving the Depression and fighting in World War II, the Baby Boomers, this book argues, are in many ways as great a generation—if not greater—for how they have advanced equality and freedom at home. It's fashionable to mock Boomers as self-involved and materialistic. But what really is the true legacy of the Boomers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo understand how Boomers have changed America, think back to the 1950s—but without the nostalgia. Women were kept at home, minorities were denied their dignity, homosexuality was a crime, and anyone who marched to a different drummer was labeled un-American and viewed as a threat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday we live in a far more open, inclusive, tolerant, and equal America than at any other time in our history. And that's because Baby Boomers, from the Sixties onward, have fought a great cultural war to free America from its prejudices, inequalities, and fears. \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Generation\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this generation's accomplishments—and finally gives Boomers their due.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Generation\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that today's legacy of social justice, diversity, and individual freedom didn't just fall from the sky; it's a consequence of a hard-fought progressive struggle fought on the home front by a morally engaged American generation.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Marty Kaplan, Air America radio host and director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern Califormnia Annenberg School for Communication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009941979376,"sku":"9780312326418","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312326418_p0.jpg?v=1766595387","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312326418","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}