{"product_id":"book-dhqx","title":"The Age of Entitlement","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences and his conclusion is this: even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in wealth, freedom, and social stability—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCaldwell reveals the real political turning points of the past half-century, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through \u003ci\u003ePlayboy \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEssential, timely, hard to put down, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Entitlement \u003c\/i\u003e“is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine) about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347099853104,"sku":"BDdhqx","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49347099885872,"sku":"10dhqx","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dhqx-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773691724","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dhqx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}