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The History of Generation X: Born in the 70's & 80's - Raised in the 90's, Greatest, Most Forgotten Generation
With the world in turmoil during the past twenty years, it is now clear that one generation had the character and the skills to face up to those challenges.
This book is about them, Generation X. An overlooked and forgotten generation, brought up when the world was forever changing and was to play an important role in keeping everything together, when all seemed lost.
Through its pages it explores the historic events that occurred when Xers were growing up as well as their education, style and entertainment which shaped them into adults. How they were influenced, and how they also influenced, the new information age that would transform the world.
It also explores the crises that they had to face as adults, including three massive financial disasters, a worldwide pandemic, and the reemergence of war in Europe. Put together Xers have been called upon to save the day for almost the entirety of their adulthood, making them a generation to be remembered.
The History of Generation X is a book about remembrance, celebration and hope for the future ahead. A book for Xers, their parents, and their children.
This book is about them, Generation X. An overlooked and forgotten generation, brought up when the world was forever changing and was to play an important role in keeping everything together, when all seemed lost.
Through its pages it explores the historic events that occurred when Xers were growing up as well as their education, style and entertainment which shaped them into adults. How they were influenced, and how they also influenced, the new information age that would transform the world.
It also explores the crises that they had to face as adults, including three massive financial disasters, a worldwide pandemic, and the reemergence of war in Europe. Put together Xers have been called upon to save the day for almost the entirety of their adulthood, making them a generation to be remembered.
The History of Generation X is a book about remembrance, celebration and hope for the future ahead. A book for Xers, their parents, and their children.
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252 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 25, 2022
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September 12, 2025
The Most Boomer gen Xer
Quite honestly, I would have put this book in my did not finish pile except I was on a trip with limited books with me. I then only continued hate reading it after the author (who lived part of their childhood in Wales) talked about Thatcher as having a complicated legacy like someone who liked her but wanted to admit that for some "unknown reason" the peasants didn't. Ever time I highlighted & noted a passage the note was things like BS, & this entire paragraph is false, as the author chose to say extremely un gen X things like, because so many people wanted to go to college they HAD to raise their prices up so high, and a section on being a latchkey kid that reads likes a parent re-writing history to make themselves the good guy while also slightly bashing women's lib. Overall it read like a Pollyanna Boomer talking about how great Xers have it. (Minus the slight hardships of the recessions & pandemic, that they pulled themselves up by their boot straps and got though. )
Quite honestly, I would have put this book in my did not finish pile except I was on a trip with limited books with me. I then only continued hate reading it after the author (who lived part of their childhood in Wales) talked about Thatcher as having a complicated legacy like someone who liked her but wanted to admit that for some "unknown reason" the peasants didn't. Ever time I highlighted & noted a passage the note was things like BS, & this entire paragraph is false, as the author chose to say extremely un gen X things like, because so many people wanted to go to college they HAD to raise their prices up so high, and a section on being a latchkey kid that reads likes a parent re-writing history to make themselves the good guy while also slightly bashing women's lib. Overall it read like a Pollyanna Boomer talking about how great Xers have it. (Minus the slight hardships of the recessions & pandemic, that they pulled themselves up by their boot straps and got though. )
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