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Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
Generation Ageless-an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers
Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Summary
Thirty years retired makes for a VERY long vacation. So... what's a 55+ Boomer to do? Arguably this next could be your BEST life passage. But first you will need to "shift gears, " rediscover your SELF, then redesign a retirement life and work that will: Engage your energy and vitality, Stimulate your mind, Enhance your physical capabilities, and Keep you involved, relevant and productive for the next three or more decades... BUT without tying you...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
It's fashionable to mock Boomers as self-involved and materialistic, but what really is their true legacy? To understand how the 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. Today we live in a far more open, inclusive, tolerant, and equal America. That's...
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Summary
"Hosted by gerontologist and psychologist Dr. Ken Dychtwald, the program focuses on the boomers' formative years to reveal the personality traits of a generation that has since rewritten the rules for work, marriage and parenthood, and is now redefining retirement and aging." PBS website.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Summary
"Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we're facing a decade-long "great deflation"-and what to do about it. Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on demographics-the ultimate tool for predicting both big and small trends, decades in advance. Now he explains what's going to happen to our economy with the accelerating retirements of the Baby Boomers. Inflation rises when a larger than usual...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
"A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means for American politics and economics. Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. How much longer...