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Bezig met laden... Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disasterdoor Helen Andrews
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() ![]() Biographical sketches degenerate into essays and the book becomes much better when they do. Al Sharpton as the launching pad for transactional vs. transformational politics with revisionist history on political machines and racial integration was particularly insightful. Despite her insistence that she found something to like in all of the individuals profiled Andrews clearly has nothing but antipathy for Sotomayor. Paglia, Jobs, and to a lesser degree Sorkin are all tragic in that their admirable qualities were perverted by their circumstance - their birth at the wrong time in the wrong country. At times she undermines her own contention that the boomer disaster was avoidable. Pornography - nobody wanted it but nobody fought against it. School prayer - its staunch advocates within months decided it was unimportant, or actually good, that it was gone. Could pornography and the rollback of Christianity been stopped if the boomers' parents had been more alert to the danger? The true disaster is that we'll never know. "If you've never belonged to something, you've never had to defend something, so you can hate everything." "Teaching religion is like teaching a language - learn one language and you can learn another. Learn no language and you're a feral wolf boy forever." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"For the first time in American history, a generation is worse off than their parents. 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, including Camille Paglia, Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs, and Sonia Sotomayor. In covering the mighty works of these titans, Andrews reveals how their lives and their generational idiosyncrasies have secretly deformed--in plain sight--our society and our successive generations"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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