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About every eight decades, coincident with the most stressful and perilous events in U.S. history—the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Great Depression and World War II—a new, positive, accomplished, and group-oriented “civic generation” emerges to change the course of history and remake America. The Millennial Generation (born 1982–2003) is America’s newest civic generation.

In their 2008 book, Millennial Makeover, Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais made a prescient argument that the Millennial Generation would change American politics for good. Later that year, a huge surge of participation from young voters helped to launch Barack Obama into the White House.

Now, in Millennial Momentum, Winograd and Hais investigate how the beliefs and practices of the Millennials are transforming other areas of American culture, from education to entertainment, from the workplace to the home, and from business to politics and government. The Millennials’ cooperative ethic and can-do spirit have only just begun to make their mark, and are likely to continue to reshape American values for decades to come.

Drawing from an impressive array of demographic data, popular texts, and personal interviews, the authors show how the ethnically diverse, socially tolerant, and technologically fluent Millennials can help guide the United States to retain its leadership of the world community and the global marketplace. They also illustrate why this generation’s unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will enable us to overcome the internal culture wars and institutional malaise currently plaguing the country. Millennial Momentum offers a message of hope for a deeply divided nation.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-5
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  1. Part One: Change Creates Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
  2. pp. 7-61
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  1. 1. Welcome to the Millennial Era
  2. pp. 9-25
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  1. 2. Millennials Are About to Take Over America
  2. pp. 26-43
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  1. 3. Fighting Over America’s Future
  2. pp. 44-61
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  1. Part Two: Changing America’s Government
  2. pp. 63-118
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  1. 4. Judging the Fourth Turning
  2. pp. 65-82
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  1. 5. Crowdsourcing the Congress
  2. pp. 83-101
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  1. 6. The Challenge of Presidential Leadership in a Fourth Turning
  2. pp. 102-118
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  1. Part Three: Changing the Way Americans Work and Learn
  2. pp. 119-190
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  1. 7. Leadership for a New Economic Era
  2. pp. 121-137
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  1. 8. Confronting Corporate Life
  2. pp. 138-155
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  1. 9. Building Better Learning Communities
  2. pp. 156-174
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  1. 10. Taking Higher Education Higher
  2. pp. 175-190
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  1. Part Four: Changing the Way Americans Live
  2. pp. 191-280
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  1. 11. Millennial Family Lifestyles
  2. pp. 193-209
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  1. 12. Let Millennials Entertain You
  2. pp. 210-225
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  1. 13. Changing the World
  2. pp. 226-244
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  1. 14. Making Over American Politics
  2. pp. 245-263
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  1. 15. Building a New Civic Ethos
  2. pp. 264-280
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  1. Note on Data Sources and Analyses
  2. pp. 281-282
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  1. References
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  1. Index
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  1. About the Authors
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