The Greatest Generation Redux?
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Today’s high school and college-age students have faced challenges the likes of which no generation has known since the cohort Tom Brokaw memorably christened “the greatest generation.” During the latter’s childhood, “economic despair hovered over the land like a plague,” as Brokaw wrote in his 1998 bestseller. Teens and young adults, having experienced the Great Recession of 2007-09 as children, are living through a real plague, a global battle reminiscent of the world war their grandparents or great-grandparents fought.
Originally published: October 12, 2020
Author: Barry Glassner, Morton Schapiro
Position: Former President, President
Institution: Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern University
Published by: Inside Higher Ed