{"product_id":"9780316395793","title":"A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his \"remarkable\" (\u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"controversial\" (\u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e) book—written in a \"wry, amusing style\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)—Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Generation of Sociopaths\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024609362160,"sku":"9780316395793","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316395793_p0.jpg?v=1763681302","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316395793","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}