Jam
Books Reviews
October 15, 1996--New book on birth order says some are simply 'Born To Rebel'
"Frank
Sulloway has delivered one of the most authoritative and important
"Every once in a long while a book is published which changes a whole
field
of scholarship, perhaps even everybody's thinking. Such a book
is Born to Rebel."
--ERNST MAYR, Agassiz Professor
of Zoology Emeritus, Harvard University
"Born to Rebel is a magnificent intellectual accomplishment,
at once sweeping and intimate; it affords a whole new
perspective on both human history and everyday life."
--ROBERT WRIGHT, author of
The Moral Animal
"Sulloway applies evolutionary insights about family relationships to
the
broad sweep of human history; his book will change the way each of
us
thinks about the past, the future, and ourselves. I believe his
book will
have the same kind of long-term impact as Freud's and Darwin's."
--SARAH BLAFFER Hrdy, author
of The Woman That Never Evolved
Jam
Books Reviews
October 15, 1996--New book on birth order says some are simply 'Born
To Rebel'
USA
Today Books
09/08/97 (Updated 03:30 PM ET)--Book: Younger siblings 'born to rebel'
UTNE.com
Out of Order: Frank Sulloway says firstborns are conformists.
Our visionaries beg to differ.
MSNBC
On Air
The family. It is the source of our nurturing and development. It is
the bond that defines us, rears us and anchors us. But does the family
predispose itself to certain personality traits simply because of the order
and placement of a person within its ranks?
MSNBC
On Air Politics
Born to Win--If you're still scratching your head over which candidate
to support this year in the voting booth, birth order expert Frank Sulloway
has the following insights into our political candidates based on their
birth orders.
Random
House Books
A landmark work that illuminates the crucial influence of birth order
on personality and the far-reaching consequences of sibling competition--
not only within individual families but on society as a whole.
American
Demographics, March 1997
Birth Order and the Baby Boom by Cheryl Russell
Many parents notice that younger children are more vocal and contrary.
By the same token, those baby boomers
who are younger siblings may rock society's boat for a long time to
come. Following on the heels of the so-called "Silent" generation,
why are baby boomers so noisy? Maybe because so many of them are younger
brothers and sisters.
Salon
Magazine
According to Sulloway, firstborns are typically conservative, aggressive,
jealous and over-achieving; "laterborns" are more easygoing, adventurous,
open to experience and likely to make creative breakthroughs. Sulloway
himself? A laterborn — a
natural-born rebel.
New
Civilization
Younger children rebel, eldest children defend the status quo.
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