P. J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground"
newspapers, became editor in chief of National Lampoon, then spent
twenty years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as
the world's only trouble-spot humorist, going to wars, riots,
rebellions, and other "Holidays in Hell" in more than forty countries.
Now O'Rourke, born at the peak of the Baby Boom, turns his gimlet eye
and jackknife wit on himself and his 75 million accomplices in making
America what it is today. With laughter as an analytical tool, he uses
his own very ordinary--if sometimes uproarious--experiences as a key to
his extraordinary age cohort. He writes about the way the postwar
generation somehow came of age by never growing up and created a better
society by turning society upside down.
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll
Never Do It Again is at once a social history, a group memoir of
collectively impaired memory, a hilarious attempt to understand the
generation's messy hilarity, and a celebration of the mess the Baby Boom
has made.