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My Grandmother, My Mother, and Me: 100 Years of America
This study of three generations, although cherry-picked, subjective, and anecdotal, does tell us something.
- Although easier and more luxurious, my life is more complicated than my grandmother’s.
- In daily living and career options, the ordinary American citizen has prospered in ways that stagger the imagination.
- Families in the ’40s and ’50s labored to provide housing, food, and clothes, while my increasingly pampered generation fights to keep perspective on what is real and important.
