Balsamic Dreams

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 rolesA 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.