The Age of Entitlement : America since the Sixties.
Christopher. Caldwell
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Simon & Schuster
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| Omfang | 1 online resource.
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| Opplysninger | Part I: The revolutions of the 1960s. 1963 ; Race ; Sex ; War. -- Part II: The new Constitution. Debt ; Diversity ; Winners ; Losers.. - A major American intellectual 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. -- From publisher's description.
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| ISBN | 1-5011-0693-7
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