A generation of sociopaths : how the baby boomers betrayed America /
Gibney shows how America was hijacked by a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts-- acting, in other words, as sociopaths-- they turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipart...
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New York :
Hachette Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The view from 1946
- Bringing up boomer
- Vietnam and the emerging boomer identity
- Empire of self
- Science and sentimentality
- Disco and roots of neoliberalism
- The boomer ascendancy
- Taxes
- Debt and deficits
- Indefinitely deferred maintenance
- Boomer finance: the vicious cycle of risk and deceit
- The brief triumph of long retirement
- Preparing for the future
- Detention, after-school and otherwise
- The wages of sin
- The myth of boomer goodness
- Price tags and prescriptions
- Afterword.