I recall noting how many of them there were, marveling at how naturally they assumed that they could change the world and admitting that, yes, they were different. In the course of a conversation, some of them asked if I thought they were different from other young people I had known previously, if they weren't, well, more idealistic and moral. Some were veterans of the civil rights movement and brought the moral fervor of that crusade to the anti-Vietnam war movement. I first encountered it face-to-face in the 1968 McCarthy presidential campaign. We weren't very far into the 1960s before it became apparent that this group was different and that it considered itself special. Unlike a generation that had enjoyed Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller with its elders, this one had its own music in the nascent rock and roll, which it treasured from the start because the baby boomers knew it was going to drive the grown folks bonkers. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, this generation had a sense of being different - of being subversives in an adult society - as early as the 1950s, even before its members reached puberty. Never has there been such a self-conscious and defined generation in our history as that born between 19.Īccording to Jeff Greenfield, a television commentator who worked in Robert F.
This is the year America's baby boom generation begins to turn 40.
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