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In this provocative new book, psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls Generation Me--people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious. Dr. Twenge reveals how profoundly different today's young adults are--and makes controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole. But Dr. Twenge doesn't just talk statistics--she highlights real-life people and stories. With a good deal of irony, humor, and sympathy she demonstrates that today's young people have been raised to aim for the stars at a time when it is more difficult than ever to get into college, find a good job, and afford a house. Dr. Twenge also presents the often-shocking truths about her generation's dramatically different sexual behavior and mores. Engaging, controversial, prescriptive, and often funny, Generation Me will give Boomers new insight into their offspring, and help GenMe'ers in their teens, twenties, and thirties finally make sense of themselves and their goals and find their road to happiness.

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Jean M. Twenge, PhD, is a widely published professor of psychology at San Diego State University. She is the author of The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant and Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled-and More Miserable Than Ever.... Her research has appeared in Time, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Dateline, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Jean lives with her husband in San Diego, California. Randye Kaye is a national voice talent and actress, also currently heard as part-time newscaster and classical music host on NPR affiliates WSHU-FM and AM. Prior to that, while raising her children, she was a full-time morning personality for a top-rated Connecticut radio station in addition to her voice-over, on-camera, and theater work.

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