An incisive, and often humorous, takedown of the Worst Generation by one the sharpest young thinkers on the right.
Helen Andrews is an editor, cultural critic, and 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, First Things, Claremont Review of Books, Hedgehog Review, American Affairs, and National Review. She lives in Washington, D.C.
“Helen Andrews has written the first book to treat the Baby Boomers
not just as youthful dreamers but also as ruthless wielders of
power, and to account for what their dreams have cost us. A
groundbreaking reassessment of the last generation by one of the
bravest and best writers of this one.”—Christopher Caldwell, author
of The Age of Entitlement
“Baby boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake
your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist
Helen Andrews, incendiary new critic of left-wing pieties, youthful
scourge of 'disastrous' sixties idealism and its legacies, and
all-round millennial conservative whippersnapper par excellence.
Even when infuriating or wrong—and Andrews can be both—she is
irresistibly intelligent, writes like a dream, and asks questions
so uncomfortable and fundamental that the bravery, honesty, and
moral seriousness of her approach cannot be gainsaid. Boomers—shall
we go there?—is an essential book for our woebegotten time. Excuse
me, folks, while I kiss the sky.”—Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas
Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University, author of The
Professor
“As a committed but self-hating Baby Boomer, I've read Helen
Andrews' work with an uneasy mixture of trepidation and
admiration—admiration because she combines a luminous intelligence
with a wit that's as glistening and sharp as a straight razor, and
trepidation because I realize she is about to turn those weapons on
me and my kind. We deserve it, of course, but that doesn't make it
any less scary.”—Andrew Ferguson, staff writer at The Atlantic,
author of Crazy U and Land of Lincoln
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