This generation’s quest for righteousness will extend globally in elderhood. I hardly ever read a book twice, but there is one I return to now and then to see how we Boomers are doing compared to what was predicted: Generations: The History of America’s Future by William Strauss and Neil Howe written in 1991.Īre we becoming who they said we would be?īased on their reading of history, Strauss and Howe proposed we would “demand sweeping moral authority and…assume an air of stuffy principle, off-putting to fun-loving younger adults.
