The Baby Boom

The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. Who put their faith in the Kyoto Accord and disco. Who dropped out of the capitalist system and popped back again in time to cause a global financial crisis. How did the Baby Boom become what it is and who let them get away with it?

P. J. O'Rourke wrote more than twenty books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics.
Parliament of Whores and
Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the
New York Times bestseller list. He was a contributing editor at the
Weekly Standard, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panellist on NPR's
Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine
American Consequences. Long a resident of rural New England, as far away from the things he wrote about as he could get, he died in 2022 at the age of 74.