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...Thomas Geoghegan...
Brooding over a romance gone awry, Thomas Geoghegan wanted to get away from it all. Joining the French Foreign Legion was out, but a roommate talked him into volunteering as an observer at a dissident Mine Workers election. That was in 1972, and the beginning of Geoghegan's love affair with a "dumb, stupid, mastodon of a thing," a creature that shambles around "with half its brain gone." The object of his passion: organized labor...
Raised in the suburbs and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Geoghegan, 42, could easily have turned out to be like others of his generation, wanting, as he says, to go into real estate and cappuccino. Instead he ended up as a labor lawyer in Chicago, working for outfits like the Steelworkers, the Teamsters and the Autoworkers. Along the way, he also became a writer and has produced a fine first book that blends an unswervingly honest account of labor's history with his adventures as a modern-day Don Quixote of the legal profession whose battles take place...
...women had never married, up sharply from 55% and 36%, respectively, in 1970. Among those 25 to 29, the unmarrieds included 43% of men and 29% of women in 1988, vs. 19% and 10% in 1970. The sheer disposability of marriage breeds skepticism. Kasey Geoghegan, 20, a student at the University of Denver and a child of divorced parents, believes nuptial vows have lost their credibility. Says she: "When people get married, ideally it's permanent, but once problems set in, they don't bother to work things...
...McDonald's commercial, and the Baby Boomers believed it. The Depression-era work-and-scrimp ethic that drove their parents was not passed along. Inflation is at least partly to blame, says MONEY Managing Editor Landon Jones, author of Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan). Spiraling costs made savings seem futile and fostered a sensibility of buy now, pay later...