<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>“Lenny Steinhorn presents compelling evidence that Boomers significantly shaped—and improved—their times. This is a counterintuitive examination of a generation that is far more complex and far more influential than is commonly believed.” </DIV><DIV>—Frank Senso, former CNN Washington bureau chief</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>While the Greatest Generation deserves our praise for surviving the Depression and fighting in World War II, the Baby Boomers, this book argues, are in many ways as great a generation—if not greater—for how they have advanced equality and freedom at home. It’s fashionable to mock Boomers as self-involved and materialistic. But what really is the true legacy of the Boomers?<BR><BR>To understand how Boomers have changed America, think back to the 1950s—but without the nostalgia. Women were kept at home, minorities were denied their dignity, homosexuality was a crime, and anyone who marched to a different drummer was labeled un-American and viewed as a threat. <BR><BR>Today we live in a far more open, inclusive, tolerant, and equal America than at any other time in our history. And that’s because Baby Boomers, from the Sixties onward, have fought a great cultural war to free America from its prejudices, inequalities, and fears. <I>The Greater Generation</I> tells the story of this generation’s accomplishments—and finally gives Boomers their due.<BR><BR>“<I>The Greater Generation</I> reminds us that today’s legacy of social justice, diversity, and individual freedom didn’t just fall from the sky; it’s a consequence of a hard-fought progressive struggle fought on the home front by a morally engaged American generation.” </DIV><DIV>—Marty Kaplan, Air America radio host and director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern Califormnia Annenberg School for Communication</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>