HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Baby Boomers, Nikita Khrushchev, October Revolution
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Doesn"t want essay starting from the beginning of time. The us economy goes gangbusters after the war. They are a low-end working class youth from liverpool. Despite their white happy-go-lucky appearance many of them came from broken homes. The followed the everly brother"s sort of style; they initially want a sort of stronger elvis sort of style. They were a part of a massive british invasion that overwhelms the west and east. They stole the stage from american pop culture. The british, in the 60s and 70, reinvent themselves and the beatles were a big part of this. The second biggest group is the rolling stones and they take on the bad boy persona. The good life and the limits of liberalism. Overall theme: the 60s for baby boomers were a restless search for the good life, even without limits.
