Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge

Boomers have also dominated Congress, governorships, university presidencies, and C-suites since the 1990s. Given their outsize numbers and outsize pull, writer Landon Jones (b. 1943) dubbed Boomers “a generational tyranny.”