The I Index

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Maybe someday

48

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

50/100

Critics

5/100

Scholars

89/100

Author:

Christopher Caldwell

Publisher:

Simon Schuster

Date:

January 21, 2020

A 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization.

What The Reviewers Say

Jeff Rowe,
The Associated Press
... sweeping but insightful.
Francis P. Sempa,
The New York Journal of Books
... provocative and well-argued.
Jonathan Rauch,
The New York Times Book Review
Caldwell warrants attention. He is one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists, noted especially for his thoughtful writings on Europe.
Kitty Kelley,
Washington Independent Review of Books
With facile writing and impressive research, Caldwell examines his premise in detail, hitting the era’s hot-button issues: abortion, affirmative action, busing, Robert Bork, Gloria Steinem, women’s rights, and gay marriage.