The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Written by:
Christopher Caldwell
Narrated by:
Christopher Caldwell

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
17
Narrator
4
Release Date
January 2020
Duration
11 hours 8 minutes
Summary
A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, 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 and his conclusion is this: 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 you on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, 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 an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (New York magazine) 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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John P.

Good analysis from a conservative perspective of how the current extreme divisions in American politics came to be

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David C.

Some interesting theories but not as thought provoking as I thought it would be. But I did find it interesting that the author made the point about two constitutions and that the additional rights and benefits the administrative state created needed to be funded and that Ronald Reagan’s refusal tax to pay for these benefits was the beginning of the growth of debt and deficits. That these benefits were being funded by future generations and the collapse of 2008 was the coming to terms with that.

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