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How a New Generation Is Remaking America
Rutgers University Press
October 2011
On Sale: September 28, 2011
296 pages ISBN: 0813551501 EAN: 9780813551500 Kindle: B005JMXG0K Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
About every eight decades, coincident with the most
stressful and perilous events in U.S. history—the
Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Great Depression and
World War II—a new, positive, accomplished, and
group-oriented “civic generation” emerges to change the
course of history and remake America. The Millennial
Generation (born 1982–2003) is America’s newest civic
generation. In their 2008 book, Millennial
Makeover, Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais made a
prescient argument that the Millennial Generation would
change American politics for good. Later that year, a huge
surge of participation from young voters helped to launch
Barack Obama into the White House. Now, in
Millennial Momentum, Winograd and Hais investigate
how the beliefs and practices of the Millennials are
transforming other areas of American culture, from education
to entertainment, from the workplace to the home, and from
business to politics and government. The Millennials’
cooperative ethic and can-do spirit have only just begun to
make their mark, and are likely to continue to reshape
American values for decades to come. Drawing from an
impressive array of demographic data, popular texts, and
personal interviews, the authors show how the ethnically
diverse, socially tolerant, and technologically fluent
Millennials can help guide the United States to retain its
leadership of the world community and the global
marketplace. They also illustrate why this generation’s
unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will
enable us to overcome the internal culture wars and
institutional malaise currently plaguing the country.
Millennial Momentum offers a message of hope for a
deeply divided nation.
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