02353cam a2200349 i 4500 408590901 TxAuBib 20200124120000.0 190402s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019012957 9781501106897 HRD 28.00 1501106899 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Caldwell, Christopher. The Age of entitlement [BOOK] : America since the sixties / Christopher Caldwell. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. 342 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 1963 -- Race -- Sex -- War -- 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, 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. Provided by publisher. 20200124. Baby boom generation United States. Political culture United States. United States Politics and government 1945-1989. United States Politics and government 1989- United States Social conditions 1960-1980. United States Social conditions 1980-