Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Andrews, Helen

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little...
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Author: Helen Andrews
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Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Andrews, Helen

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

Dhs. 152.83

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

Dhs. 152.83
Author: Helen Andrews
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Helen Andrews
Publisher: Sentinel
Published: 01/12/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780593086759


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/30/2020
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2020

About the Author
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.

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