How Long to Read The Missing Link

How Long Does it Take to Read The Missing Link?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 11 minutes to read The Missing Link by Robert Barry Carson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Missing Link examines the life and times of a mostly forgotten generation of aging Americans. Born between 1929 and 1941, they were once known as the "Depression Babies," named at the end of their arrival in commemoration of the nation's existing economic realities. The Depression Babies, however, were soon forgotten -- pushed aside by the GI Generation (Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation") and then overrun by the Baby Boomer mob. Yet, forgotten or not, the Depression Babies were a uniquely lucky lot. Mostly too young to remember the Great Depression, impressionable kids during the "most moral" of America's wars (and usually with fathers too old for combat), generally not quite old enough to be combatants in the Korean War, teenagers and young adults during the nation's greatest economic expansion, parents with children too young to be sacrificed in Vietnam, and exiting middle age with the largest per capita accumulation of real wealth ever assembled by any generation, the Depression Babies are perhaps the luckiest generation of Americans that ever lived... or perhaps ever will. Curiously, and with much irony, the Depression Babies' saga through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first almost exactly parallels the rise and flourishing of that present-day American compass for personal and national life: the American Dream. Indeed, they might have been "The American Dream Generation" had not events and the Boomers consigned them to anonymity. The Depression Babies' disappearance, though scarcely noticed, was not without consequences. They were the nation's last generation to have personal contact with an increasingly distant past. Their inability to assume a transitional role between the greatest and the Boomers is the source of an enduring sense of national uncertainty -- particularily with respect to the "NOW" emphasis on everyday life and the resulting failure to see American roots and history as a potential steadying force in creating national self-awareness and direction.

How long is The Missing Link?

The Missing Link by Robert Barry Carson is 418 pages long, and a total of 107,844 words.

This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Missing Link Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 49 minutes to read The Missing Link aloud.

What Reading Level is The Missing Link?

The Missing Link is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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