The Age of Entitlement

America Since the Sixties

By: Christopher Caldwell

Narrated by: Christopher Caldwell

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.

Thought provoking

Here is another book that I’m not exactly sure where or how I heard about it but it turned into one of the best selections I’ve made of late. I bounce around History to fiction to history and during one of these bounces I read this book. How has social justice and other causes hijacked the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and turned it into a de facto Constitutional substitute? Every person in our society seems to want to be classified somehow as a victim based on race sex creed sexual preference and are using the CRA to make their case without even fully applying the IS Constitution in it’s entirety. Thought provoking.

Thank you, Charlie Kirk.

This book was recommended to many by Charlie Kirk, the Christian martyr and American hero. As of this writing I am astonished at the incredible truth carefully lined throughout this wonderful book. Thank you for standing for the truth.

Thoughtful and well researched

Mr. Caldwell masterfully details the emergence of political correctness from the ever expanding interpretation of the Civil Rights Act. His prescient vision has been reinforced in the months since this book’s publication. One may not fully agree, however, it will expand and enhance a thoughtful dialogue.

fantastic book

Smart, well-written, well-spoken. It helps you to understand how the U.S. got to where it is now. illuminating and insightful.

Read this Book

for someone under 40, this book brings into stark and unwavering focus the story of how Anerica changed from the mythical nation I was taught as a child into the nation I have inherited as an adult.