Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation

Doug Owram

Published by University of Toronto Press 1997

Born at the Right Time

A History of the Baby Boom Generation

Doug Owram

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442657106

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About this book

From Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of the baby-boomers became predominant themes for all of society. The first Canadian history of a legendary generation.

Author / Editor information

Owram Doug :

Doug Owram is Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

Reviews

J. Trent Alexander, Carnegie Mellon University:

'This first-rate scholarly product has the best elements of monograph, synthesis, and a good read. Historians of postwar North America should consider this book both for its innovative thesis linking the 1950s and the 1960s, and because it is a fine example of a well-constructed history.'

'A thorough and absorbing work which demonstrates how the baby-boomers, that demographic watermelon passing through the post-war snake, defined our times.'

'[Owram provides] some valuable insights into how this most privileged generation of the century got here and why we rebelled.'

Bruce Taylor:

'It is an extremely well-researched book, full of data tables and bar graphs. If you need to know how many copies of Elvis Presley's Hound Dog were sold in 1956, or the amount of sugar in Sugar Smacks, this is your book. Apart from his thoroughness, Owram possesses two indispensable qualities: a sense of proportion and a sense of humor.'

'Owram shows in fascinating detail the massive impact this group had on everything from the baby food that was created to feed them, to the suburbs that were built to house them and the school system that sprung up to educate them.'
The Toronto Star

'Doug Owram has done something amazing: he has written a book about the boomers entirely free of the cliches that ruin almost everything else written on the subject. ... Born at the Right Time is packed with ideas; every generalization is backed by evidence.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
1. Home and Family at Mid-Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Babies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Safe in the Hands of Mother Suburbia: Home and Community, 1950-1965 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Consuming Leisure: Play in an Era of Affluence, 1950-1965 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5. School Days, 1952-1965 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. The Fifties and the Cult of the Teenager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
7. The Arrival of the Sixties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8. 'Hope I Die Before I Get Old': The Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1963-1968 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9 .Youth Radicalism in the Sixties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
10. Sexual Revolutions and Revolutions of the Sexes, 1965-1973 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
11. The End of the Sixties, 1968-1973 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Epilogue: A World without Limits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 416

eBook

Published: December 15, 1997
ISBN: 9781442657106