The Misconception About Baby Boomers and the Sixties Conventional wisdom places the boomers at the center of the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. In truth, they had almost no The New Yorker

There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.