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When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America
When Millennials Rule offers an optimistic story about how the generation that grew up through 9/11 and the Great Recession will rise above these setbacks to unify around common-sense solutions and take back America’s future.
China has swallowed our jobs. Social security is going bankrupt. Radical Islamic terrorists threaten our safety. Our planet is on the brink of environmental disaster. Meanwhile, politicians pound their chests in ideological wars that enrich lobbyists and special interest groups at the expense of the American voter.
If America today is at a crossroads, it is the millennial generation – long ridiculed as selfish egotists and narcissistic Twitter drones – that will face the momentous task of restoring the promise of a better future.
But where are millennials leading America? How will this generation shape our nation’s future? These are questions everyone is asking – in newspapers, in books, on television and on Twitter. And they’re baffled. The Nation called it “Millennial Madness” and The Atlantic complained that millennial political views “don’t make any sense.”
Five years ago, David and Jack Cahn – identical twins, competitive debaters, and New York magazine’s “Twin Titans” – set out to answer these questions and uncover their generation’s political identity. Traveling across the country, from Kentucky to Illinois to California, they talked with more than 10,000 young Americans about everything from campaign finance reform to nuclear proliferation, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.
When Millennials Rule is the story of their journey. They start in New Haven, Conn., just months after the Newtown shooting, and end in Philadelphia, where the 2016 Democratic National Convention is set to launch one of the most contentious elections in modern history. Combining thorough reporting with the compelling stories of their peers, the brothers craft an authentic, first-person portrait of what millennials stand for and why.
China has swallowed our jobs. Social security is going bankrupt. Radical Islamic terrorists threaten our safety. Our planet is on the brink of environmental disaster. Meanwhile, politicians pound their chests in ideological wars that enrich lobbyists and special interest groups at the expense of the American voter.
If America today is at a crossroads, it is the millennial generation – long ridiculed as selfish egotists and narcissistic Twitter drones – that will face the momentous task of restoring the promise of a better future.
But where are millennials leading America? How will this generation shape our nation’s future? These are questions everyone is asking – in newspapers, in books, on television and on Twitter. And they’re baffled. The Nation called it “Millennial Madness” and The Atlantic complained that millennial political views “don’t make any sense.”
Five years ago, David and Jack Cahn – identical twins, competitive debaters, and New York magazine’s “Twin Titans” – set out to answer these questions and uncover their generation’s political identity. Traveling across the country, from Kentucky to Illinois to California, they talked with more than 10,000 young Americans about everything from campaign finance reform to nuclear proliferation, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.
When Millennials Rule is the story of their journey. They start in New Haven, Conn., just months after the Newtown shooting, and end in Philadelphia, where the 2016 Democratic National Convention is set to launch one of the most contentious elections in modern history. Combining thorough reporting with the compelling stories of their peers, the brothers craft an authentic, first-person portrait of what millennials stand for and why.
336 pages, Hardcover
Published August 2, 2016
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December 4, 2017
My first non-fiction book this month I read. Thanks in part to Hoopla.
August 3, 2016
Putting a Spanner in the Works
I am a UK reader, sat in my ivory tower and do not really know what politically, is going on in America. My eyes have now been opened. The authors of When Millennials Rule, David Cahn and Jack Cahn have travelled across America and have spoken to dozens of Millennials (those who are now able to vote) and have captured within this book, their frustration with the current political system and their cries for reform.
This study has been well written, well researched, is informative and is dynamic. If anything, it will engage those wanting change and will motivate them to take action and be heard.
This book did however make me feel exasperated as we seem unable to steer our economic and moralistic ideals on the correct course and are destined to fall off the edge of the world. Our utopian dreams are now in the hands of the Millennials and we can only hope for better times.
This book has been an education.
I am a UK reader, sat in my ivory tower and do not really know what politically, is going on in America. My eyes have now been opened. The authors of When Millennials Rule, David Cahn and Jack Cahn have travelled across America and have spoken to dozens of Millennials (those who are now able to vote) and have captured within this book, their frustration with the current political system and their cries for reform.
This study has been well written, well researched, is informative and is dynamic. If anything, it will engage those wanting change and will motivate them to take action and be heard.
This book did however make me feel exasperated as we seem unable to steer our economic and moralistic ideals on the correct course and are destined to fall off the edge of the world. Our utopian dreams are now in the hands of the Millennials and we can only hope for better times.
This book has been an education.
August 4, 2016
You have to read it! When Millennials Rule: the Reshaping of America is a terrific book written by Millennials for Millennials, that will show you how this long time snubbed generation could be a great force for positive change; a generation of optimistic with a strong idealism and community engagement.
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*This book was kindly sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review*
Read more on The Serial Reader Blog.
*This book was kindly sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review*
August 2, 2016
Powerful
The "Titan Twins" write a very powerful book about the restructuring of America. This is the first book that I've read that was both nonfiction and political and it made me see America in a different light. As a member of Generation X (and that's all I'm admitting to), seeing it as a new generation, the millennial generation, it takes to heart how America has changed. It's always been political, but taking in the Cahn twins cross country quest, it brings it into a new light. If you love a good "quest", try this book, it will, at the very least, give you a new perspective.
The "Titan Twins" write a very powerful book about the restructuring of America. This is the first book that I've read that was both nonfiction and political and it made me see America in a different light. As a member of Generation X (and that's all I'm admitting to), seeing it as a new generation, the millennial generation, it takes to heart how America has changed. It's always been political, but taking in the Cahn twins cross country quest, it brings it into a new light. If you love a good "quest", try this book, it will, at the very least, give you a new perspective.
December 24, 2016
this books shows proof of what I have been saying for a while; that millennials are directinv their own path politically. And it's not all that bad.
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