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Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
Buch von Helen Andrews
Sprache: Englisch

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For the first time in American history, a generation is worse off than their parents. Who is to blame?

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.
For the first time in American history, a generation is worse off than their parents. Who is to blame?

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.
Über den Autor
Helen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. Previously, she was the managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine and a 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, First Things, Claremont Review of Books, The Hedgehog Review, American Affairs, and National Review. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Zusammenfassung
FUNNY AND PROVOCATIVE: A conservative millennial Dorothy Parker, Andrews is a gifted satirist, and her carefully chosen portraits of history's most influential Baby Boomers and searing cultural critique will keep readers wincing and laughing.

A WRITER'S WRITER WITH MANY CONNECTIONS: Over her years of writing for The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, First Things, Claremont Review of Books, Hedgehog Review, American Affairs, and National Review, Andrews has earned a loyal conservative following and many well-connected fans across the political spectrum, ranging from Tucker Max to David Brooks.

TIMELY SUBJECT: Millennials on both sides of the aisle are suffocated by student loan debt and disillusioned by declining family values. This book offers a way forward and has potential for success across party lines.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780593086759
ISBN-10: 0593086759
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Andrews, Helen
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Maße: 215 x 146 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Andrews
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.01.2021
Gewicht: 0,366 kg
preigu-id: 121052767
Über den Autor
Helen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. Previously, she was the managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine and a 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, First Things, Claremont Review of Books, The Hedgehog Review, American Affairs, and National Review. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Zusammenfassung
FUNNY AND PROVOCATIVE: A conservative millennial Dorothy Parker, Andrews is a gifted satirist, and her carefully chosen portraits of history's most influential Baby Boomers and searing cultural critique will keep readers wincing and laughing.

A WRITER'S WRITER WITH MANY CONNECTIONS: Over her years of writing for The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, First Things, Claremont Review of Books, Hedgehog Review, American Affairs, and National Review, Andrews has earned a loyal conservative following and many well-connected fans across the political spectrum, ranging from Tucker Max to David Brooks.

TIMELY SUBJECT: Millennials on both sides of the aisle are suffocated by student loan debt and disillusioned by declining family values. This book offers a way forward and has potential for success across party lines.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780593086759
ISBN-10: 0593086759
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Andrews, Helen
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Maße: 215 x 146 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Andrews
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.01.2021
Gewicht: 0,366 kg
preigu-id: 121052767
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