CONTENTS

Preface

Prologue

1   Genesis of the Baby Boom

2   Home and Family in Early Postwar America

3   School Daze: From Split Shifts to Sputnik

4   Leisure World

5   Sibling Rivalry

6   Camelot Kids

7   Boomers in Transition: High School to College

8   Growing Up in the Great Society

9   Challenging the Establishment

10   The Summer of ’69 and Beyond

11   A Good Time to Grow Up

A Note on Sources

Index