Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty

About the Book

Here's a popular history of the Baby Boom Generation told through the vignettes, quotes, quips, sayings and slogans that characterized and shaped an era.

A fascinating roller-coaster ride through the first four decades of the Baby Boom, Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty paints an indelible portrait of those days. Historian Howard Smead brilliantly chronicles America's stormy generation and its stormy times with a refreshing approach that uses the expressions Boomers themselves loved and lived by. From Spock babies and the Golden 50s, through protest and change, Vietnam, Woodstock and the disco 70s, to the rise of the conservative right and the arrival of the Reagan Era, the glory days are all here.

For Boomers and others interested in this effusive and influential generation, this signature work is a must.

About the Author

Howard Smead is the author of Blood Justice, The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker, an account of the last classic lynching in American History, which took place in Poplarville, Mississippi in 1959. He is the author of three novels: The Redneck Waltz about the effects of violence in a small town. Kak Drenner, a murder mystery about a violent struggle for control of a family fortune. And a cyberthriller, My Name is Zed in which hackers track two children kidnapped by a cyberstalker. He was on the staff at The Washington Post and currently teaches history at The University of Maryland.