What’s going to happen when the most prosperous, best-educated generation in history finally grows up? (And just how special are the baby boomers?)
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Given their central role in recent history, baby boomers figure prominently in many of the most important and illuminating books about postwar America. Here are 10 volumes that I found of particular interest.—J.Z.
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Was the great Orson Welles possibly not all that great? Is there something coarse and generic about one of our most beloved war memorials? Which of our Founding Fathers deserves better of us? Which of our painters? For the eighth year in a row, historians and journalists assess the ever-shifting reputations of people and events, and once again affirm that history is never history - that it is the most volatile, passionate, and living of pursuits.
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