Born at the Right Time : A History of the Baby Boom Generation / Doug Owram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owram, Doug, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baby boom generation--Canada.

Baby boom generation.

Canada--Economic conditions--1945-.

Canada.

Canada--Social conditions--1945-.

Canada--Politics and government--1980-.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It is rare in history for people to link their identity with their generation, and even rarer when children and adolescents actually shape society and influence politics. Both phenomena aptly describe the generation born in the decade following the Second World War. These were the baby boomers, viewed by some as the spoiled, selfish generation that had it all, and by others as a shock wave that made love and peace into tangible ideals. In this book, Doug Owram brings us the untold story of this famous generation as it played out its first twenty-five years in Canadian society. Beginning with Dr Spock's dictate that this particular crop of babies must be treated gently, Owram explores the myth and history surrounding this group, from its beginning at war's end to the close of the 1960s. The baby boomers wielded extraordinary power right from birth, Owram points out, and laid their claim on history while still in diapers. He sees the generation's power and sense of self stemming from three factors: its size, its affluent circumstance, and its connection with the 1960s - the fabulous decade of free love, flower power, women's liberation, drugs, protest marches, and rock 'n' roll. From Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of this single generation became predominant themes for all of society. Thus, Owram's history of the baby-boomers is in many ways a history of the era. Doug Owram has written extensively on cultural icons, Utopian hopes, and the gap between realities and images - all powerful themes in the story of this idealistic generation. A well-researched, lucid, and humorous book, Born at the Right Time is the first Canadian history of the baby-boomers and the society they helped to shape.

Contents:

Home and family at mid-century

Babies

Safe in the hands of mother suburbia: home and community, 1950-1965

School days, 1952-1965

The fifties and the cult of the teenager

The arrival of the sixties

'Hope I die before I get old': the rise of the counter-culture, 1963-1968

Youth radicalism in the sixties

Sexual revolutions and revolutions of the sexes, 1965-1973.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-5901-7

1-4426-5710-3

0-8020-5957-0

OCLC:

903441140