5 Feet of Fury

The Greatest Generation — or the Wimpiest?

Does this explain how their hippie kids turned out?

John Strausbaugh, author of Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits, agrees, and traces America’s wimpiness to World War II, which he thinks “traumatized a generation of American men” who retreated to suburbia. “Once we were warriors,” he says. “Now we are worriers.”