If you’re looking for the highly detailed, data-driven, definitive story of how baby boomers changed America and a little forecasting of what might come next, Philip Bump’s The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America is it.

There are so many bars, squiggles, arrows, circles, dots, numbers and pictograms within these pages — 128 charts in total — that poring over them might make that hypothetical word person feel a little cross-eyed and frantic.

An immensely informative assessment.

Bump leaves no stone unturned as he takes a detailed look at the rise of the baby boom generation, its impact on the United States and the implications of its final days.

The Aftermath is stuffed with enough charts and graphs to make any data-driven wonk swoon.

Bump illustrates his ability to distill complex and thought-provoking topics into digestible bites.

Insightful if overstuffed.

Less crystal ball than projection of probabilities, but rewarding, provocative reading for students of demographic trends..