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Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
by Andrews, Helen | HC | VeryGood
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593086759
ISBN-13
9780593086759
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6050079964
Product Key Features
Book Title
Boomers : the Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social History, Commentary & Opinion, Essays
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Literary Collections, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-036188
Reviews
"Helen Andrews has written the first book to treat the Baby Boomers not just as youthful dreamers but also as ruthless wielders of power, and to account for what their dreams have cost us. A groundbreaking reassessment of the last generation by one of the bravest and best writers of this one." --Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement "Baby boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews, incendiary new critic of left-wing pieties, youthful scourge of 'disastrous' sixties idealism and its legacies, and all-round millennial conservative whippersnapper par excellence. Even when infuriating or wrong--and Andrews can be both--she is irresistibly intelligent, writes like a dream, and asks questions so uncomfortable and fundamental that the bravery, honesty, and moral seriousness of her approach cannot be gainsaid. Boomers --shall we go there?--is an essential book for our woebegotten time. Excuse me, folks, while I kiss the sky." --Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University, author of The Professor "As a committed but self-hating Baby Boomer, I've read Helen Andrews' work with an uneasy mixture of trepidation and admiration--admiration because she combines a luminous intelligence with a wit that's as glistening and sharp as a straight razor, and trepidation because I realize she is about to turn those weapons on me and my kind. We deserve it, of course, but that doesn't make it any less scary." --Andrew Ferguson, staff writer at The Atlantic , author of Crazy U and Land of Lincoln
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
305.20922
Synopsis
With their overthrow of tradition and authority, the Baby Boomers claim to have been humanity's greatest liberators, but their children would happily trade that so-called liberation for a little less debt, the chance to own a home before fifty, and a shot at extracting some commitment from the bosses and romantic partners who view their relationships as temporary. In this book, millennial journalist Helen Andrews calls the Boomers to account. With wit and conviction, she presents profiles of luminaries who promised much but failed to deliver., "Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews." --Terry Castle With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of the generational draw? In Boomers , essayist Helen Andrews addresses the Boomer legacy with scrupulous fairness and biting wit. Following the model of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, she profiles six of the Boomers' brightest and best. She shows how Steve Jobs tried to liberate everyone's inner rebel but unleashed our stultifying digital world of social media and the gig economy. How Aaron Sorkin played pied piper to a generation of idealistic wonks. How Camille Paglia corrupted academia while trying to save it. How Jeffrey Sachs, Al Sharpton, and Sonya Sotomayor wanted to empower the oppressed but ended up empowering new oppressors. Ranging far beyond the usual Beatles and Bill Clinton clichés, Andrews shows how these six Boomers' effect on the world has been tragically and often ironically contrary to their intentions. She reveals the essence of Boomerness: they tried to liberate us, and instead of freedom they left behind chaos.
LC Classification Number
HN59.2.A537 2021
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