The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties [Original retail ed.] 1501106899, 978-1501106897

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nati

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English Pages 352 Year 21 Jan 2020

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties [Original retail ed.]
1501106899, 978-1501106897

Commentary
“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

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