Gerontocracy in America : how the old are hoarding power and wealth - and what to do about it /
"A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it." --
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond Biden
- Part I. Toward the great aging
- The rule of elders
- The revolt of everyone else
- Staying alive
- Part II. The faces of gerontocracy
- Old Politicians
- How politicians aged
- Our councils of elders
- Younger faces in the highest places
- Old constituents
- Aging voters
- The real trouble with the AARP
- Saving #OurDemocracy- from old people
- Old money
- Oldigarchy
- Old men at work
- Just retirements
- Part III. A new phase for the wrinkled- and power for the rest
- The Socialist way of aging
- Why Neoliberals are wrong about "entitlements"
- Ageism and the necessity of limits.