The Age of Entitlement

America Since the Sixties

By: Christopher Caldwell

Narrated by: Christopher Caldwell

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

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, 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 an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (New York magazine) about how the reforms of the past 50 years gave the country two incompatible political systems - and drove it toward conflict.

©2020 Christopher Caldwell (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio

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.

A must read or listen to this book!

This was informative and clearly presented. I recommend this book to those who want a understandable explanation of our history since the 1960's.

Information we forgot or never knew

Loads of facts and insights that explain how we got to where we are in society and politics.

Socio-political masterpiece!!!

If you're a Libertarian, or conservative trying to wrap your head around various issues, this is the bible of modern American politcal knowledge!

Explanatory

This book articulates and verbalizes ideas and sentiments that you’ve likely felt but maybe not thought about. It put the history of the country into a new perspective, and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear a politician citing it in the near future.

This will prove to be one of the most important books of the decade.

See above—don’t miss it. Caldwell is a masterful observer of American culture and a wonderful stylist.

LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!

One of the best I have ever read

Absolutely opened my eyes on so many issues

A New Look At our Changing Culture

An extremely intelligent and interesting book whose thesis, if correct, dramatically impacts each of us and our country for the future. Without being overtly political, it explains a lot about the forces and the dynamics that are tearing this country apart. Trump is never mentioned but he is explained. The loss of rights and the replacement of those rights with ideology is worrisome and largely missed or ignored.
This book causes the reader to stop and look at our culture through a new lens.