The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
by Christopher Caldwell
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Philosophy.
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 unf...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Philosophy.
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Tyler Cowen
“This is both a very old thesis, but these days quite new, namely the claim that 1965 and the Civil Rights movement created a “new constitution” for America, at variance with the old, and the two constitutions have been at war with each other ever since. It will be one of the influential books “on the Right” this year.”
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