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The aftermath : the last days of the baby boom and the future of power in America / Philip Bump.
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- ISBN: 9780593489697
- ISBN: 0593489691
- Physical Description: xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, map, charts ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2023]
- Copyright: ℗♭2023.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-379) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- A baby tsunami -- All things must pass -- How to spot a boomer -- The politics of the new generation gap -- The post-boomer cultural era has arrived -- Who will inherit the economic boom? -- The importance of what we don't know -- The importance of what we don't know about ourselves -- A new American politics -- Getting from here to wherever "there" is. |
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The Aftermath : The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
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The Aftermath : The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
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 than we'd expected will Boomers control wealth? Will millennials get shortchanged for jobs and capital as Gen Z rises? What kind of pressure will Boomers exert on the health care system? How do generations and parties overlap? When will regional identity trump age or ethnic or racial identity? Who will the future GOP voter be, and how does that affect Democratic strategies? What does the Census get right, and terribly wrong? The questions are myriad, and Bump is here to fight speculation with fact. Writing with a light hand and deft humour, Bump helps us navigate the flood of data in which our sense of the country now drowns. He fits numbers into a narrative about who we a
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