A GENERATION OF SOCIOPATHS

Access to this book courtesy of the

A GENERATION OF SOCIOPATHS How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America Bruce Cannon Gibney New York: Hachette Books, April 2017				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-0-316-39578-6
ISBN-10 0-316-39578-1	430pp.	HC	$27.00

	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	415

Table of Contents