The Baby Boomers were, until recently, the largest generation in American history (at 78 million). They dominated American life and culture for more than 50 years - as the first kids raised on TV in the 1950s, the disruptive peaceniks, Vietnam warriors, and crewcut Nixon bully-boys of the 60s, discoteque denizens of the 70s, yuppie 30-somethings ...

The ascendency of Barack Obama as a legitimate contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination has focused a lot of attention on the generation gap, even though some would argue that Obama (b. 1961) is technically still a Baby Boomer, albeit at the opposite end of the curve from Hillary Clinton (b.1946). From the perspective of life ...