What really happened to the class of '93 : start-ups, dropouts, and other navigations through an untidy decade
(Book)

In What Really Happened to the Class of '93, author Chris Colin reacquaints himself with members of his high school class ten years after they graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and stepped out into a world of great promise. When this D.C.-area class graduated, the Internet was a flicker on the horizon, globalization was exploding under President Clinton, and a sense of possibility filled the country. These graduates were entering a moment of historic opportunity. Ten years later, everything has changed. From Monica Lewinsky to the economic downturn to 9/11, the nation now reverberates with confusion, turmoil, and loss. Through his classmates intensely personal stories from this decade, Colin presents an intimate and engaging portrait of a generation in the midst of transformation. What Really Happened to the Class of '93 introduces readers to the lives of seventeen Americans, including the homecoming queen turned Rhodes scholar; the discipline case (suspended for bringing a gun to school) who now tests weapons for the government; a teen mother struggling to give her son a good childhood; and a misanthrope who discovered a happier life. . . as a woman. Between portraits, Colin examines the milestones of the decade-from the dot-com bubble to shifting notions of morality and tolerance.

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