Interesting social history, though the prose plods. When you finish the book, you realize that it has more implications, and you've learned more, than you thought as you were going through it. I found that the authors were often not quite on the mark dealing with older generations, but they delivered spot-on insights for recent "classes" and revealed that kids who will graduate from college in 2013 live in a very different world from mine. A useful reminder that we should all be tolerant of those whose lives are framed by different experiences from ours.