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Christopher caldwell’s the culture of entitlement is an insightful analysis of the history of the u. S. Since the 1960s. Caldwell locates the origins of this modern madness in the american civil rights act of 1964 and subsequent related legislation. T... Read More
Most of us have a middle-school view of the american cultural revolution since 1960. This book shares more of the cultural context, debates & ramifications of those cultural turning points.
The author's thesis is that the civil rights act of of 1964 effectively created an alternative constitution for the us without anyone realizing it. It argues that our current times and challenges can be traced to a series of extensions of the civil ri... Read More
He deftly analyzes what happened with due diligence given to both sides of the debate. Because it is built on this house of cards, any dissenting opinion must be suppressed.
This work is impeccable in research and unmatched in wit. It's objectively horrifying to understand how america was deliberately ruined. This is a masterpiece.
Cons
He negligently (or intentionally) ignores a chief culprit - the resistance of many americans who have enjoyed the laurels of privilege, like himself, but resisted the movement toward equality. It's more american than apple pie - except, bitter. Sounds... Read More
Part polemic, part revisionist history, the author concludes with a novel legal argument. I am sure that the author is a very erudite professor somewhere. The book reads like a treatise where the author has already determined his preferred point of vi... Read More
The fatal flaw of this book is that it was published in january 2020. The book, for whatever reason, feels like it needs to dedicate an entire section to the vietnam war. This work is sub-par.
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Quality
Its ability to cut through the bs to the essence of a lot of changes in american life is remarkable and it explodes myths left and right
Caldwell’s opus is remarkable in its detail wellargued and comprehensively demonstrated
If you are easily offended or abnormally partisan you may gasp a time or three because the blame and the truths exposed and dis... Read More
Be that as it may contrary to expectations integration was failing and required ever more draconian measures to enforce or to ... Read More
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His wellthought review of the last critical decades of our country’s sociopolitical history are well worth the cost to read
The wealth was spent on these expanding the new programs
All would have to be paid for which meant that they would be fought over
The us dollar became the worlds reserve currency
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Jack kemp and later clinton promoted low taxes promoted by kemp jude wanniski and arthur laffer high expenditures on social sec... Read More
If there is no solution we had all better start learning to speak chinese because the usa cant go on as a divided nation led by... Read More
The baby boomers used their generational voting power to vote all of this into effect arrogating the betterpaid labor of future... Read More
Similar costeffectiveness problems occurred in other programs and in other cities
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You have to read it for yourself
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Quality of the hard cover was great though
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Most of us have a middleschool view of the american cultural revolution since 1960
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A cultural revolution as significant as racial sexual civil rights does not happen in a vacuum and does not proceed in a straight line
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There will always be debates conflict protest and collateral damage
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Its akin to 34a peoples history34 by sharing more historical context that is usually omitted from the fairy tale accounts of the cultural civil rights sexual revolution in late 20th century usa
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This book reads like an old newsweek u
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