Full name: Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation

Author: Joe Queenan Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312420826 031242082X

From the bestselling author of Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon comes a vintage Queenan tirade chronicling the evolution of his own Baby Boomer Generation. How did a generation that started out at Woodstock and Monterey end up at Crate & Barrel? How did a generation that promised to "teach its children well" end up with a progeny so evil they could give Damien from The Omen a run for his money? And what is so fascinating about porcini mushrooms? Professional iconoclast Queenan shows how a generation with so much promise lost its way by confusing pop culture with culture and mistaking lifestyle for life. Queenan on The Sixties: "Baby Boomers who never saw Hendrix, did drugs, locked or loaded an AK-47 in country or bedded down with a girl named Radiance now all pretend they did. It's like those Civil War reenactment buffs who have drunk so much Wild Turkey they actually think they were at Chickamauga." Queenan on Death: "A generation whose primary cultural artifact is the Filofax has enormous difficulty shoehorning death into its schedule: it's inconvenient, time-consuming and stressful. 'We don't have time to die this afternoon; Caitlin has ballet.'" Similar books: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin by Calvin Trillin I'll Mature When I'm Dead by Dave Barry Wry Martinis by Christopher Buckley I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker I Drink for a Reason by David Cross You Can Date Boys When You're Forty by Dave Barry Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon by Joe Queenan You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark Boogers Are My Beat by Dave Barry My Custom Van by Michael Ian Black Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler by Joe Queenan Sex Tips For Girls by Cynthia Heimel If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? by Cynthia Heimel You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark Driving Like Crazy by P. J. O'Rourke The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson The Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile Comedy at the Edge by Richard Zoglin After the Funeral by Edwin Murphy