The age of entitlement : America since the sixties /
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 uneven...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 reveals the real 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 342 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501106897 1501106899 |