Tell Me True by Patricia Hampl

Author:Patricia Hampl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2009-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

1 Karen Peterson, “Baby Busters Rise above Elders’ Scorn,” USA Today, September 23, 1993. Quoted in Stephen Earl Bennett and Stephen C. Craig, eds., After the Boom: The Politics of Generation X (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 2–3.

2 Jay Stevens, Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (New York: Perennial Library, 1988), esp. chaps. 25, 26.

3 Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979).

4 Quoted in Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time (New York: Vintage Books, 1978), 326.

5 Stevens, Storming Heaven, 232.

6 Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 129. Putnam suggests that these twentysomethings might belong instead to the generation following Gen X. Because of their birth years in the mid- to late 1970s, however, they could also be considered late Xers.

7 From Joan Didion, Political Fictions (New York: Vintage Books, 2001), 332. For more on the lower level of political engagement among American youths compared with that of older generations, see Putnam, Bowling Alone, 36.

8 Divorce statistics from Peter Hanson, The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002), 11.

9 Douglas Keay, “Aids, Education and the Year 2000!” in Woman’s Own, September 23, 1987, 8–10; it is reproduced on the website of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation at www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106689&doctype=1.

10 Population numbers for boomers and Gen Xers from Bennett and Craig, After the Boom, 2–3. For more on the differences between the generations, see Donna Gaines, Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead End Kids (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 237–61.

11 Putnam, Bowling Alone, 259, 263.

12 Andrew Kohut et al., “How Young People View Their Lives, Futures, and Politics: A Portrait of ‘Generation Next”’ (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, January 9, 2007), 13–15; see http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/300.pdf.

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