Twenge ponders all these messagesinher book "GenerationMe: WhyToday'sYoungAmericans Are MoreConfident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before" (Free Press, 2006).
The account of his uncovered Jewish ancestry (concealed by his lively, miserable mother, who killed herself in a hotel room in Athens, with her lover) is more than poignant.