A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

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.

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.

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.

Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.

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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

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.

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.

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.

Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.

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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney

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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.

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.

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.

Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316395793
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 03/06/2018
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Bruce Cannon Gibney is a venture capitalist and writer. An early investor in PayPal, he later joined Founders Fund, where he and his colleagues funded Facebook, Spotify, Palantir Technologies, Elon Musk's SpaceX, Airbnb, Lyft, and other start-ups.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Introduction xxi

1 The View from 1946 1

2 Bringing Up Boomer 13

3 Vietnam and the Emerging Boomer Identity 27

4 Empire of Self 52

5 Science and Sentimentality 71

6 Disco and the Roots of Neoliberalism 96

7 The Boomer Ascendancy 116

8 Taxes 131

9 Debt and Deficits 155

10 Indefinitely Deferred Maintenance 176

11 Boomer Finance: The Vicious Cycle of Risk and Deceit 193

12 The Brief Triumph of Long Retirement 215

13 Preparing for the Future 239

14 Detention, After-School and Otherwise 258

15 The Wages of Sin 282

16 The Myth of Boomer Goodness 301

17 Price Tags and Prescriptions 326

Afterword 347

Appendices 357

Acknowledgments 363

A Note on the Numbers and Conventions 365

Notes 369

Index 419

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