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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative, joins Executive Editor Joy Pullmann to discuss her book "Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster" and how millennials can approach understanding their predecessors' decisions and lifestyles.
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Jessie Jackson was born in 1941. He's Quiet Generation.
Oral Contraceptives were invented in 1961 when the oldest Boomer was 15.
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I hate boomers too, and I'm a boomer myself. They are all just a bunch of smelly hippies.
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I'm technically a tail-end Boomer (1964). In the 1980s I thought the line was 1962 and gleefully mocked the hippie crowd. Still irked they moved the goalposts to put me in their company.
I've seen the "Generation Jones" explanation of how late-stage Boomers, especially oldest children raised by the pre-boomers, are not temperamentally Boomers. Raised on Schoolhouse Rock and 70s cartoons, the 60s didn't do much for me aside from that moon landing.