The good life and its discontents : the American dream in the age of entitlement, 1945-1995 / Robert J. Samuelson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Times Books, c1995.Description: xxii, 293 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0812925920 (acid-free paper)
- 9780812925920 (acid-free paper)
- 336.3/9
- HJ7543 S193g 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-277) and index.
I. The Entitlement society. The Postwar paradox -- History's chasm -- The Cult of affluence -- Prosperity's broken promise -- II. The New capitalism. The Apostles of control -- Cheery economics -- The Myth of management -- The Real economy -- III. The Politics of overpromise. Colliding ideals -- Borrow and spend -- Elusive equality -- Suicidal government -- Epilogue. After entitlement. History's cycles -- Responsibility, not entitlement -- Crisis or consensus?
The author portrays the postwar economic boom that "engendered a psychology of entitlement: a feeling that we had a right to uninterrupted personal and societal progress."
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