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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Name: The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Hardcover – January 21, 2020

by Christopher Caldwell (Author)

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.

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.

Essential, timely, hard to put down, The Age of Entitlement is a brilliant and ambitious argument about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.

About the Author

Christopher Caldwell is a contributing editor at the Claremont Review of Books and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He was previously a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties and Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 21, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1501106899
ISBN-13: 9781501106897
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Hardcover – January 21, 2020

About the Author

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