Welcome to the Jungle: The Why Behind Generation X

by Geoffrey T. Holtz

The population bomb/a white one for twenty-one days, a pink one for seven/pretty baby/it's a mad mad mad mad world/meet your new family/the warehouse generation/quality time/give a hoot dont pollute/birth of a disease/I was bad because you forgot to give me my pill/teach your chidlren wrong/the feel-good school/what a difference twenty years makes/fallout from the "Movement"/majoring in "Other"/Anxiety U./monkey on our backs/the incredible shrinking paycheck/rent forever/trickling down/inside joke/the free as parents?/mixin' it up/it's a jungle out there

Genres: Nonfiction, History

289 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1995

Reviews

[Pan Ellington · Rating 2 out of 5]

very stats & studies centric. while somewhat useful, the author's framing made this read a depressing slog with a decidedly conservative point of view.

[Stephen · Rating 1 out of 5]

My first one star. I generally find something worthwhile in any book but this just annoyed from start to finish. One long diatribe about what the parents of our (my) generation did wrong and how the sorry state of our lives were the result. Sorry, I refuse to accept the deterministic premise and the overall pessimism regarding our generation.