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BOOM: Here Come the Babies

They started being born as soon as World War II was over, and they kept on coming for more than twenty years. They are the generation of Civil Rights, of fighting in and protesting Vietnam, of the British invasion, of feminism, of Woodstock. They're the Yuppies, and the parents of Gens X and Y. They're Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Now there are 75 million of them. They are the richest and in some ways most influential generation of all time. But who are these baby boomers really, and what made them what they are?

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