Record details

• ISBN: 9780812975123
• ISBN: 9781400064588
• ISBN: 9781616570934
• Physical Description: xxii, 291 pages : illustrations
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2011]
• Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Getting the Fundamentals Right -- Chapter 1 Generations 3 -- Chapter 2 One Nation, Indivisible 17 -- Chapter 3 K Through Twelve and the Hazards Along the Way 28 -- Chapter 4 Old School Ties and New World Requirements 57 -- Chapter 5 Don't Know Much About Geometry 66 -- Chapter 6 Church of Thrift 86 -- Chapter 7 Survivors 99 -- Chapter 8 House Broken 106 -- Part 2 Assignment America -- Chapter 9 Uncle Sam Needs Us 129 -- Chapter 10 United States Academy of Public Service 137 -- Chapter 11 Stepping Up and Signing Up 150 -- Part 3 Help Me Make It Through This New Dot-Com Age -- Chapter 12 Wire the World but Don't Short-Circuit Your Soul 171 -- Chapter 13 Everyone's a Journalist 187 -- Chapter 14 Partners 198 -- Part 4 What Now, Grandma and Grandpa? -- Chapter 15 Balancing the Book of Life 211 -- Chapter 16 Failure Is an Option 228 -- Chapter 17 Grandparent Lode 238 -- Chapter 18 September of My Years 252.

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Genre:

Biographies.