Millennial momentum : how a new generation is remaking America

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Millennial momentum : how a new generation is remaking America

Morley Winograd, Michael D. Hais

Rutgers University Press, c2011

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References: p. 283-302

Includes index

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About every eight decades, coincident with the most stressful and perilous events in U.S. history-the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Great Depression and World War II-a new, positive, accomplished, and group-oriented "civic generation" emerges to change the course of history and remake America. The Millennial Generation (born 1982-2003) is America's newest civic generation. In their 2008 book, Millennial Makeover, Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais made a prescient argument that the Millennial Generation would change American politics for good. Later that year, a huge surge of participation from young voters helped to launch Barack Obama into the White House. Now, in Millennial Momentum, Winograd and Hais investigate how the beliefs and practices of the Millennials are transforming other areas of American culture, from education to entertainment, from the workplace to the home, and from business to politics and government. The Millennials' cooperative ethic and can-do spirit have only just begun to make their mark, and are likely to continue to reshape American values for decades to come. Drawing from an impressive array of demographic data, popular texts, and personal interviews, the authors show how the ethnically diverse, socially tolerant, and technologically fluent Millennials can help guide the United States to retain its leadership of the world community and the global marketplace. They also illustrate why this generation's unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will enable us to overcome the internal culture wars and institutional malaise currently plaguing the country. Millennial Momentum offers a message of hope for a deeply divided nation.

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Part I Change Creates Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt 1. Welcome to the Millennial Era 2. Millennials Are About to Take Over America 3. Fighting Over Americ's Future Part II 4. Judging the Fourth Turning 5. Crowdsourcing the Congress 6. The Challenge of Presidential Leadership in the Fourth Turning Part III 7. Leadership for a New Economic Era 8. Confronting Corporate Life 9. Building Better Learning Communities 10. Taking Higher Educatin Higher Part IV: Changing The Way Americans Live 11. Millennial Family Lifestyles 12. Let Millennials Enterain You 13. Chaning the World 14. Making Over American POlitics 15. Building a New Civic Ethos Notes on Data Sources and Analysis References Index

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