Ebook: What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Author's note and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. How the baby boomers got their freedom: 1945-51; 2. When we were very young: 1950-56; 3. The cradle of the sixties: 1956; 4. The baby boomers go to school; 5. What if Mr Macmillan's out? 1957-63; 6. The very model of a modern fluent technocrat: 1964-67; 7. The end of the adventure: 1968; 8. How the baby boomers destroyed the trade unions and made Thatcherism: 1969-79; 9. The radical conservatives: 1979-97; 10. The baby boomer Prime Ministers: 1994-2010; 11. The children of the baby boomers; Notes.;The first of those born in the baby boom following the Second World War came of age in the radical sixties. Not since 1918 had the young talked serious revolutionary politics as they did then. But in 1918, the men who came back from the war knew that the world was amiss, and what they had to do about it. When at last the generation that fought the Great War came to power, they changed the world. By contrast, the generation that came after decayed fast. For the first time since the Second World War, there was money, there was safe sex, there was freedom, and no one bothered to stop and r.