00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002780 10117/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10118/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221017114424 10118/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10117/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520002780 221017################|##########|#eng## 9781402085406 eng 304.6 304.6 CAR l Carlson, Elwood Lucky Few : Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom / Elwood Carlson USA : Springer, 2008 xx, 216p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.209-216 p.201-207 As the book title - an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history. Yet behind the scenes, these lucky few became the first American generation smaller than the one before them, and the luckiest generation of Americans ever. As children they experienced the most stable intact parental families in the nation's history. Lucky few women married earlier than any other generation of the century and helped give birth to the baby boom, yet also gained in education compared to earlier generations. Lucky few men made the greatest gains of the century in schooling, earned veterans benefits like the Greatest Generation but served mostly in peacetime with only a fraction of the casualties, came closest to full employment, and spearheaded the trend toward earlier retirement. Here is their story, and the story of how they have affected other recent generations of Americans before and since. United States - Population 10118/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10117/MKRI-P/XI-2008