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    [year] => 2002
    [artist] => Joe Queenan
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    [language] => ENGLISH
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    [title] => Balsamic Dreams
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    [synopsis] => The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary.
 It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan, however, takes a somewhat more benign position: Yes, the baby boomers are venal, self-obsessed egomaniacs blighted by an insalubrious interest in things like the provenance of their neighbors' balsamic vinegar. But, this does not make them the "worst generation" -it just makes them the most annoying.
 In Balsamic Dreams, Queenan chronicles the evolution of his generation and critiques its current condition in chapters such as:
 -J'Accuse: a bold indictment of the boomers' greatest transgressions, past and present
 -Ten Days That Rocked the World: in which Queenan identifies the precise moments things went awry (#1: the release of Carole King's Tapestry)
 -Careful, the Staff Might Hear You: an examination of the unspoken, nefarious alliance between baby boomers and Generation X
 -American History: The B-Sides: an alternative version of the Republic as played out with baby boomers in the starring roles
 A measured (if a tad cranky) assessment of a generation whose greatest sin lies in confusing lifestyle for life and pop culture for culture, Balsamic Dreams is fresh, funny, and irresistible.
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    [subtitle] => A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
    [publisher] => Henry Holt and Co.
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