Reply #19: From a review of the Strauss book... [View All]

[KurtNYC]

"Millennials Rising" is a 400-page gumbo of facts and quotations. Authors Howe and Strauss never met a sentence about today's kids that they didn't find worth treasuring and including in this book or in their previous books, which won a lot of reviewers' ink, such as "13th Gen," "Generations" and "The Fourth Turning." This latest book, like the others, mixes statistics from responsible data-collectors such as the Institute for Social Research with results from scientifically unrepresentative surveys of 200 high schoolers in Virginia and from postings on their websites...

Using this hodgepodge of material, the authors springboard to some wacky conclusions about the most overfed, overbundled and overprotected generation in American history. They say Millennials will soon remake America into a new country, a country that sounds an awful lot like East Germany, given how much time these youth spend playing organized sports, listening to the theme-park-style positivity of boy bands and dressing alike by wearing uniforms mandated by schools or peer pressure.

http://flakmag.com/books/mill.html