The age of entitlement : America since the sixties /
Caldwell, Christopher,
The age of entitlement : America since the sixties / Christopher Caldwell. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 342 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.
1963 -- Race -- Sex -- War -- Debt -- Diversity -- Winners -- Losers.
Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules.
9781501106897 1501106899
2019012957
Baby boom generation--United States.
Political culture--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
The age of entitlement : America since the sixties / Christopher Caldwell. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 342 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.
1963 -- Race -- Sex -- War -- Debt -- Diversity -- Winners -- Losers.
Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high -- in wealth, freedom, and social stability -- and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell describes the political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules.
9781501106897 1501106899
2019012957
Baby boom generation--United States.
Political culture--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
United States--Social conditions--1980-