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The Age of Entitlement

America Since the Sixties

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The Age of Entitlement

Von: Christopher Caldwell
Gesprochen von: Christopher Caldwell
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 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. Nord-, Mittel- & Südamerika Politik & Regierungen
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I'm almost in a state of shock as Caldwell makes a strangely convincing, somehow concealed and suddenly evident narrative about how the civil rights movement of the sixties explains everything from new feminism, the counter culture, reaganomics and debt, the financial bubble, gay marriage, black lives matter, the tea party, identity politics and so forth.
Can this really be true?
I think, I've got to get the book in print, and see if there are some eggheads out there, who have pointed to flaws in his arguments. But, my first impression of the book is: this is a must read, and might become a classic.

Civil Rights as the Second Constitution

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