becquebooks's review against another edition
3.0
So a professor was talking about this book in class, and when I asked her about it, she loaned me her copy. This has a very pointed and argumentative style to it. The evidence and the argument is mainly anecdotal. It also deals almost exclusively with British history. I found that refreshing as my British history knowledge is a little thin on the ground. I think parts of the argument would certainly translate to the U.S.
He's upset that the baby boomer generation was the beneficent of stunning post-War state welfare reforms, specifically schools and health care in Britain. And after they moved through the system they summarily moved through and shut down access to the those same services for their children. he accuses them of being youth obsessed, with not conception of history, and selfish. A baby boomer himself, he often returns to the idea that they pulled up the letter after they got up it. It's an interesting book. I hadn't quite thought of it like this before. I'm not doing a good job articulating this, but I don't think anyone will go out and find a copy of this.
"The generation war has started. Out parents knew they were bringing us into a new and better world. My parents, and many other, would often say, 'I want him to have the opportunities I never had.' Our parents many have begruged us our freedom, but they never begruged us their money, even though they had little of it. Now the children of the 60s are parents and grandparents, there seems to be a special venom in the loathing they show to their young. A popular car sticker around the turn of the century read triumphantly, 'Spending the kids' inheritance'....At some level we have squandered the inheritance our parents worked to give us. It as though the sixties generation decided that the freedom from humiliation and worry that they enjoyed was too good for their children. The baby boomers kicked away their children's legs, and now they sneer at them for being lame."
He's upset that the baby boomer generation was the beneficent of stunning post-War state welfare reforms, specifically schools and health care in Britain. And after they moved through the system they summarily moved through and shut down access to the those same services for their children. he accuses them of being youth obsessed, with not conception of history, and selfish. A baby boomer himself, he often returns to the idea that they pulled up the letter after they got up it. It's an interesting book. I hadn't quite thought of it like this before. I'm not doing a good job articulating this, but I don't think anyone will go out and find a copy of this.
"The generation war has started. Out parents knew they were bringing us into a new and better world. My parents, and many other, would often say, 'I want him to have the opportunities I never had.' Our parents many have begruged us our freedom, but they never begruged us their money, even though they had little of it. Now the children of the 60s are parents and grandparents, there seems to be a special venom in the loathing they show to their young. A popular car sticker around the turn of the century read triumphantly, 'Spending the kids' inheritance'....At some level we have squandered the inheritance our parents worked to give us. It as though the sixties generation decided that the freedom from humiliation and worry that they enjoyed was too good for their children. The baby boomers kicked away their children's legs, and now they sneer at them for being lame."
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