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Age of Entitlement : America since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-101501106899
ISBN-139781501106897
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038681792
Product Key Features
Book TitleAge of Entitlement : America since the Sixties
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, General, Commentary & Opinion, American Government / General
Publication Year2020
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorChristopher Caldwell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight17.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-012957
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The man is a genius." -- Freddy Gray, deputy editor of The Spectator and editor of Spectator USA, POLITICO Playbook, "A deeper, wider cultural and constitutional narrative of the last half-century... Caldwell's account is indispensable -- especially for liberals -- in understanding how resentments grew... nuanced and expansive" -- Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine, "Scholarly, provocative, insightful: this is history-writing at its best. Readers of Caldwell's journalism will instantly recognize his capacity to use a single moment or event to illuminate a much wider phenomenon. Anyone wishing to understand the failure of the American elite over the more than half century since President Kennedy was assassinated, and thus why Donald Trump was elected, must read but profoundly thoughtful book." -- Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Leadership in War, "In all, a deeply felt, highly readable, and dead honest account of America since the 1960s and the terrible wrong turn we took then and continue to follow, disrupting what we used to call the American way, and leading to the increasing alienation of many of our most productive citizens, who believe they may be losing their country." -- The Washington Times, " The Age of Entitlement is a work of history, not a work of sociological analysis. It does not conclude with a list of solutions or proposals. But this is no ordinary work of history. It engages and dazzles the reader in the way the histories of A.J.P. Taylor once did. Caldwell, as those who know his journalism and his 2010 book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe will know, has a marvelous talent for pointing out the unacknowledged contradictions and perversities in the outlooks of both left and right."" -- Commentary, The Wall Street Journal's Best Political Books of 2020 "One of the right's most gifted and astute journalists" -- New York Times Book Review, " The Age of Entitlement is a work of history, not a work of sociological analysis. It does not conclude with a list of solutions or proposals. But this is no ordinary work of history. It engages and dazzles the reader in the way the histories of A.J.P. Taylor once did. Caldwell, as those who know his journalism and his 2010 book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe will know, has a marvelous talent for pointing out the unacknowledged contradictions and perversities in the outlooks of both left and right." -- Commentary "American conservatism's foremost writer... This is a heretical, unsettling work" --The Irish Times, "In this landmark cultural and political history of the last half-century, Christopher Caldwell brilliantly dissects the new progressive establishment, and shows how the reforms of the sixties gradually devolved into intolerance, self-righteousness, and the antithesis of what had started out as naive idealism. A singular analysis by a masterful chronicler of the sixties dreams that have gone so terribly, but predictably, wrong." -- Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Case for Trump, "Caldwell warrants attention. He is one of the right's most gifted and astute journalists" -- New York Times Book Review, "Caldwell's is a deeper, wider cultural and constitutional narrative of the last half-century. If Klein is trying to explain why polarization fucks everything up, Caldwell is intent on telling us how this state of affairs came to be. Both are well worth reading (though Caldwell's vibrant, mordant prose makes his a more unusual and enjoyable ride). ... Caldwell's account is indispensable -- especially for liberals -- in understanding how those resentments grew until they finally exploded under Barack Obama. ... Caldwell's book is far too nuanced and expansive to cover here. But he identifies key moments and key changes. ..." -- Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine, " The Age of Entitlement is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight even when parts of its argument are difficult to credit (this is particularly true of Caldwell's attempts to draw a causal connection between civil rights and the social pathologies -- opioids and deaths of despair -- now afflicting white Middle America). It is the best and the most thoughtful statement we have of what might be termed the "Flight 93 mindset" -- the feeling, among a certain type of white conservative, that the changes of the past half century have amounted to a war on the country and the civilization that they knew and loved." -- New York Magazine, "A sweeping but insightful examination into every social, political and legal decision, movement and trend that leaves us where we are today in a polarized nation. ... a fascinating read that could ignite 1,000 conversations ... Caldwell's analysis of our Vietnam legacy is particularly masterful but the book brims with brisk evaluations of how a confident nation became an argumentative, fragmented one." -- The Associated Press, " The Age of Entitlement rudely dismembers the moral pretensions of our ruling class in the tradition of Christopher Lasch. If the trajectory of political correctness leaves you bewildered, here you will learn its institutional logic--the key role it plays in legitimating new structures of inequality. Thanks to Caldwell, we now understand how this regime change happened, and why half the electorate thought it necessary to cast a vote of desperation in 2016." --Matthew Crawford, New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft, "The current white leading Democratic candidates should read Caldwell's book to fathom how their own ideologies now boomerang. They might question why they -- and not Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Deval Patrick, or Andrew Yang -- are alone on the primary debate stage." -- National Review, "The sharpest and most insightful conservative critique of mainstream politics in years." -- P ublishers Weekly (starred review)
Dewey Decimal305.240973/09046
SynopsisA 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. Essential, timely, hard to put down, The Age of Entitlement 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.
LC Classification NumberE839.5.C333 2020
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- Dec 08, 2020
Who's entitled and to what?
While I am a longtime huge fan of Christopher Caldwell going back to his days with the ill-fated Weekly Standard, I must say I was slightly disappointed in this book. Caldwell does an excellent job of chronicling America's descent over the last fifty years to the point where we're now circling the drain, and convincingly ties this decline to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and numerous expansions of its authority through judicial interpretation of various "emanations and penumbras". However, the title is "The Age of Entitlement", and he does a less convincing job of supporting that characterization. Nowhere in the book does he explicitly describe who is to be entitled, and to what.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Mar 05, 2020
Excellent read
The autor provides much credible information in a clear and lucid style.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jul 19, 2022
cuts through the nonsense
I desperately needed an explanation as to how the USA has found itself in such a dire state. Why do people no longer wish to be free? When did we become so selfish and intolerant. At least this book has shed some light on these questions.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
