A generation of sociopaths : how the baby boomers betrayed America /
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| Author / Creator: | Gibney, Bruce, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Hachette Books, [2017] |
| Description: | xxxiii, 430 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11316359 |
| Summary: | In his "remarkable" ( Men's Journal ) and "controversial" ( Fortune ) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" ( The Guardian ) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. <br> <br> In A Generation of Sociopaths , Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations.<br> <br> Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off.<br> <br> Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.<br> |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 430 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780316395786 0316395781 9781478941385 9781478945291 9780316395809 |
