In Lessons of a Generation, Clifford Adelman offers a fascinating look at the career and educational choices of the high school class of 1972 with special emphasis on how postsecondary education made a difference in their lives. Drawing on the largest and richest data archive ever assembled on a generation of Americans, Adelman follows 22,000 members of the senior class of 1972 over a fifteen-year period--in and out of school, college, work, family,...