They also admit that they had trouble fitting the years between the Civil War and WWI into their scheme. No heroic generation there either.
The Progressive Generation of a century ago is put into the same category as the Silent Generation of the 1950s or the Compromise Generation that failed to prevent the Civil War, which may or may not make sense to us, but which surely would have annoyed the progressives.
Maybe that is what we are in for now. No heroic generation to save us, but a complicated, conflicted, irritated and irritating generation that takes over and changes things without necessarily resolving anything.
You can't go wrong predicting that there will be a major crisis sometime, and if it doesn't tear us apart, it may bring us back together.
I know some pretty strong Millennials - don’t believe everything you read in the papers/hear on the news.
Wasn’t it only about 3% of the population or something like that that made such a huge impact in the Revolution.
Who could have predicted that the ragged, homeless or tent-city kids of the Great Depression would fight and win World War II? What were the chances of that happening?
The movie Sea Biscuit was a good example from the Great Depression era that showed the changes among a small group of people.