{"product_id":"what-happened-to-millennials","title":"What Happened to Millennials","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle Synopsis\u003c\/strong\u003e: From an award-winning journalist, a reflective, smart, and deeply reported look at the millennial generation that draws on the experiences of five diverse individuals and explores where we go from here\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat happened to millennials? At the birth of America’s largest living generation, the outlook was strong: unparalleled economic growth, the emerging Internet, the rise of the cell phone, and a geopolitics that had allegedly reached “the end of history” all set expectations exceedingly high for a cohort entering adulthood at the dawn of the new millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThat adulthood—a work in progress for more than a quarter century—has been disrupted by war, recession, pandemic, and a sharp turn toward cultural and economic polarization. It has also been endlessly critiqued by others as immature, lazy, weak, incomplete, selfish, and supposedly riddled with failure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNow, 25 years after the first millennials began turning 18, Bloomberg News reporter Charlie Wells comes to the generation’s defense with a cultural history of an adulthood disrupted. Drawing on hundreds of hours of intimate interviews with five millennials from across the country, he explores how the biggest events, ideas, and transformations of the century played out in private lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBetween the data points and statistical studies, news reports and archival records, his brutally honest, on-the-record conversations about love, loss, work, addiction, tragedy, and sacrifice reveal how a generation once minimized can no longer be ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat Happened to Millennials charts a path from our nostalgic past to a better future, shaped by the challenges we have surmounted, the people we have loved, and the adults we have become.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: Charlie Wells is a staff editor and reporter at Bloomberg News. He writes about how the economy, society, technology, and politics influence everyday life and is a regular contributor to Bloomberg television and radio. Before Bloomberg, he spent five years at the Wall Street Journal and then four years at The Economist. Like his subjects, he’s a millennial whose life turned out a little bit different than he once imagined.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCopyright\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2025 Charlie Wells\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook Release Date\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack Count\u003c\/strong\u003e: 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Book Release Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2025-09-16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRunning Time\u003c\/strong\u003e: 08:23:38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook ISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781965655825\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LINDIE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47324174188695,"sku":"9781965655825","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/9540\/8023\/files\/9781965655825__25204.jpg?v=1773525534","url":"https:\/\/lindie.net\/products\/what-happened-to-millennials","provider":"Lantern Indie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}