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Title: Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America by Marc Freedman ISBN: 1586481207 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88
Rating: 1
Summary: Save your money
Comment: Don't buy this one, check it out of the library and read Chapter 6, because it is the ONLY chapter that talks about what the title promises: How Baby Boomers WILL Revolutionize and Transform America. Most of the book is a dull recitation of facts about how some people in our parents' generation found meaning by becoming foster grandparents (holding dying babies mentoring pregnant teens, or working at the local McDonalds.)
Sorry, but this is a depressing book that does not speak to me as a child-free adult who has spent her life working outside the home. There are a few interesting tidbits, such as how retirement communities such as Sun City were the genesis of racially segregated, gated communities where rich people pride themselves on avoiding taxes.
Rating: 5
Summary: shocked and dismayed
Comment: There are 3 books every older person should read and ponder. Marc Freedman's book Prime Time is one of them (The other titles are Another Country and Age-ing to Sage-ing).
Like the other authors, Freedman has done his homework and presents a positive alternative to seniors on golf courses. His recounting of the evolution of our changing attitudes towards elders is worth the book alone. But more than anything else, he portrays a picture of engaged, older citizens who make a difference to their community. This is a far better picture than the one the media portrays of "greedy geezers" or "selfish bluehairs".
Marc Freedman's call for investing in creating opportunities for senior citizen service is not only altruistic, it is essential if we are ever to weave together the fabric of our bickering populations.
Those who gave a negative view of this book quite frankly shocked me. Sadly they promote a very selfish portrait of older Americans at a time when we can least afford it. (Or they simply are poor readers with a heavy, negative agenda)
Buy this book, you will not be disappointed! It is easily worth 6 stars.
I hope someday to meet Mr. Freedman and personally thank him for advocating for a meaningful role for older citizens.
Rating: 3
Summary: Too depressing for me to finish
Comment: I DO agree that the Del Webb history is fascinating.
Also, the book is well written.
BUT, I am a tired 53 year old lawyer. I have had
one job or another since I was a teenager.
I was an over-achieving student, so I worked
very hard at school from first grade forward.
(Graduated #1 from 8th grade; #3 from undergrad;
#1 from law school - you get the pattern.)
My family was dysfunctional (I know, whose
wasn't?) and I was not given a chance to be
a kid - I had to grow up fast, be serious,
etc. etc. After decades of work of one sort
or another, I am ready for R&R; for travel; for play. Indeed
I LONG for it. I want to learn how to garden; learn Spanish;
study art. I see my in-laws, who
have been retired happily for a quarter of a century,
enjoying life with gusto without feeling a need to
work or volunteer at anything. Yet they are two
of the most interesting people I know.
This book's thesis was just exhausting and depressing.
I became so irritated that I stopped reading it.
... If some people want to work for
their whole lives, let them. Personally, having
never had much of a chance to "play" as a child,
I look forward to learning how to do it - and
doing it well. If I can touch some lives positively
along the way, terrific. Hopefully I will someday
have grandchildren and will have the time and energy
in retirement to love and spoil them, as well
as to host family gatherings and give to people
that way (as my in-laws do so lovingly). But I resist the message
that, after having worked this hard, and paid
plenty of SSA taxes to keep my elders financed
in their retirement, that I have to forego my own.
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Title: Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old by Ken Dychtwald, Ken, Phd Dychwaltd ISBN: 1585420433 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 21 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America-And the World by Peter G. Peterson ISBN: 0812990692 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce by Beverly Goldberg ISBN: 0684857596 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: January, 1900 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Age Wave: How the Most Important Trend of Our Time Will Change Our Future by Kenneth, Ph.D. Dyctwald, Joe Flower, Ken Dychtwald ISBN: 055334806X Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders by Theodore Roszak ISBN: 1893163504 Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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