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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers�the largest age cohort in history�are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you�re gone the reputation you leave behind? In this series of essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own battle with Parkinson�s disease to unearth answers to questions we are all at some time forced to confront. �Sometimes,� he writes, �I feel like a scout from my generation, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what even the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.� This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of a generation and a frequently funny account of one man�s journey toward the finish line. �The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting,� he writes. �Parkinson�s disease has fulfilled that obligation.� From the Hardcover edition.