The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties Audiobook (Free)

A significant American intellectual makes the historical case how the reforms from the 1960s, reforms designed to make the nation more simply and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White colored House.

Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Also the reforms that Us citizens love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in prosperity, freedom, and interpersonal about Age Entitlement: America Since the Sixties balance—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations.

Caldwell reveals the true political turning points of the past half century, taking readers on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy newspaper, affirmative actions, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycontin, Dark Lives Matter, and Internet cookies. In doing so, he demonstrates efforts to redress the injustices of days gone by have left People in america living under two different suggestions of what it means to try out by the rules.

Necessary, timely, hard to place down, Age Entitlement is an excellent and ambitious argument about how exactly the reforms of the past 50 years gave the united states two incompatible politics systems—and drove it toward conflict.