To be quite honest, I didn't finish this. The message is certainly important--the successes of (mostly white) Baby Boomers were built on a government that actively worked hard to promote their flourishing, despite the rhetoric of self-made-ness that has such toxic effects on current policy. But for whatever reason, this version wasn't able to hold my attention, maybe because I didn't need such thick descriptions of ultimately successful whites' lives to be convinced of the point.

Well-sourced and detailed, the Gifted Generation is full of anecdotes about growing up during an age of more government intervention. However, the chapters are incredibly long and quite dry, and it is not an easy read. The chapters do not flow together, and sometimes do not even feel as if they were part of the same book.

This may be a good reference for someone researching the era, but it is not recommended for casual reading.

I began the book attentively, but ended up impatiently skimming my way through.