Book description
While this book was written for male Baby Boomers and their significant
others, it also includes Boomer history and what lies ahead as we
experience the decade of our own sixties. This story reviews our Boomer
luck, recounts the great history of being a kid in the 1950s, and the
great opportunities provided by improved education in the 1960s, not to
ignore a seemingly mind expanding culture. Turning sixty is not for the
faint hearted. There are issues ahead. The first thing we all face is
taking care of aging parents or what the author refers to as helping
your parents check out. Then there are our own Boomer health issues
including cataracts and prostate cancer. You likely think there is
nothing funny about these topics but the quirky economist author finds
humor in all of our aging experiences. This book covers Boomer issues,
all in the context of our Boomer culture. We Boomers thought we would be
young forever. Maybe that is why it is so amusing. RYAN CUSTER AMACHER
was born 52 days too early to be an “official” Baby Boomer, but he in no
way ever considered himself a member of Tom Brokaw's “Greatest
Generation.” In this book, the author chronicles the good luck of the
first sixty years of the Boomer experience and guides Boomers into the
humorous, but sobering experience of their personal sixties. Amacher, an
economist, has a BA degree from Ripon College and a PhD from the
University of Virginia. He has been a professor at the University of
Oklahoma, Economics Department Chair at Arizona State, Business Dean at
Clemson University, and President of the University of Texas at
Arlington where he is now a Professor of Economics. He has worked at the
Pentagon, writing a market plan for the All-Volunteer Army, the Federal
Trade Commission as a consultant, and the US Treasury, on the Law of The
Sea negotiations.
