Volume 47, Number 11 · June 29, 2000
Early American Get-Up-and-Go
By Gordon S. Wood
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
by Joyce Appleby
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 322 pp., $26.00
We are often told that the 'baby boomers'—that is, those born in the two decades or so following World War II—have brought about the greatest transformation of political, social, and cultural life in American history. Ever since this generation came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, it has involved America in a multi-tude of radical changes allegedly unmatched by the experience of any previous generation of Americans—changes in politics, civil rights, race relations, sexual habits, family life, women's roles, cultural attitudes. All these changes, according to many, have resulted in a series of challenges to our traditional identity as an optimistic, enterprising, and progressive nation.
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