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<b>A major American intellectual makes the historical case for the inevitability of President Trump, arguing that the 1960s reforms meant to make the nation more humane instead created a system that left Americans alienated and poised to elect him.</b> 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 <i>Playboy</i> 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, <i>The Age of Entitlement</i> 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.
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The Age of Entitlement, Christopher Caldwell
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- The Age of Entitlement
- Subtitle
- America Since the Sixties
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christopher Caldwell
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1501106899
- ISBN13
- 9781501106897
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Politics, USA, 20th century, American Literature, Sociology, Culture and Society, Political Theories, American History, 21st Century, Social Conditions, Populism, Political Correctness
- Description
- <b>A major American intellectual makes the historical case for the inevitability of President Trump, arguing that the 1960s reforms meant to make the nation more humane instead created a system that left Americans alienated and poised to elect him.</b> 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 <i>Playboy</i> 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, <i>The Age of Entitlement</i> 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.