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1) Boomsday
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Author Christopher Buckley imagines a not-so-distant future when America teeters on the brink of economic disaster as the baby boomers start retiring; Cassandra, Buckley's heroine, is a twenty-nine-year-old PR chick who blogs at night about the impending Boomsday budget crisis.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The old idea of 'retirement'--a word that means withdrawal, describing a time when people gave up productive employment and shrank their activities--was a short-lived historical anomaly. Humans have always found meaning and motivation in work and community, Farrell notes, and the boomer generation, poised to live longer in better health than any before, is already discovering unretirement: extending their working lives, often with new careers, entrepreneurial...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the personal and social impact of the impending retirement of America's 77 million Baby Boomers. By Emmy-Winning filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey, Director of A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America.
Author
Publisher
Mighty Buffalo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
We surveyed over 500 retired expats in Mexico to find out where they live, what it costs, what they value, and why they stay. Their answers are unexpected and astounding! The Fun Side of the Wall is not just a book about how to retire in Mexico, it is also a critique of the way retirement has been commodified in the United States. This push for commercially structured senior living has left many Baby Boomers in search of more authentic surroundings....
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"I hope you get drafted, I hope you go to Vietnam, I hope you get shot, and I hope you die there. Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender. She would marry a fellow antiwar activist and end up immigrating to Canada. He would fight in Vietnam and come home to build an American dream kind of life--a great career, a trophy wife, and a life of wealth and privilege....