Welcome to the Jungle: The Why Behind Ggeneration X

by Geoffrey T. Holtz and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

The population bomb/a white one for twenty-one days, a pink one for seven/pretty baby/it's a mad mad mad mad world/meet your new family/the warehouse generation/quality time/give a hoot dont pollute/birth of a disease/I was bad because you forgot to give me my pill/teach your chidlren wrong/the feel-good school/what a difference twenty years makes/fallout from the "Movement"/majoring in "Other"/Anxiety U./monkey on our backs/the incredible shrinking paycheck/rent forever/trickling down/inside joke/the free as parents?/mixin' it up/it's a jungle out there

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312132107
• ISBN13: 9780312132101
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Finally, it all makes sense....

The causes and influences of the GenX crowd are lucidly laid out in this most excellent book. I found myself constantly thinking, "Yes, I remember that," and "Of course, doesn't everybody feel that way?" The author does make our efforts seem a bit doomed--sometimes merely by the sheer numerical force of the generations that preceed us. He does however succeed in explaining who and what this "us" is and why it exists. The only really annoying bit is that the author insists on christening this generation yet again--this time as "The Free," an especially corny title that does not roll off the tongue as nicely as "GenX," which he claims GenXers all hate. Is it GenX of me to like the name out of spite??