A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

Bruce Cannon Gibney

Mar 2017 · Sold by Hachette Books

About this ebook

In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.

In A Generation of Sociopaths, 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.

Acting 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.

Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.

Ratings and reviews

Whenever a political piece describes itself as "controversial" and/it "humurous", know that its pandering just to people who already agree with the message. Stop blaming boomers for problems that have already existed since before their time, especially when your rather waste time making a whole book pointing the finger rather than one has actual solutions.

Don't waste your money....this book is pure idiocy. It is a prime example of a so called author confusing corelation with causation. His anaysis is suprficial and intellectually dishonest in every way possible. It is incredible to realize a screed that is so stupid and intellectually dishonest could actually get published. If you lived through the 1960s and since, so you know first hand the events this moron raves about, you will, almost from page one, realize the fraud that this book is. I find the premise interesting, but this author offers nothing more than his iditotic opinions, and the "facts" he uses to back his opinionated conclusions are arbitrary, and never sythesized into the context of the times in which the events happened....if he did provide even the slightest context, his argument be the definition of spacious. I am trying to get through the book....about half way....but this is one of the few books i have ever read that is offers nothing but the views of an intellectualy dishonest author.

From what I seen its the ones in colleges today that act like dillusional entitled sociopaths that believe their prof lies and also want what will destroy this place which is c o m m u n i s m. Majority are the spoiled ones protesting and looting businesses while disrespecting everyone else. If they actually thought logically and not believe the lies their told they might see their own hypocricy also the fact that many escaped those c o m m u n i s t i c crimes to come here. The minute you confront them with facts they stoop to immature insults and leave only wanting to hear their side of thinking which isnt always right. The real generation of sociopaths and narclsslstlc entitled youth are the majority today in schools that lack individual thinking and respect. I tell it like it is to and btw Im not a boomer.

About the author

Bruce Cannon Gibney is the author of A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. A venture capitalist and writer, Gibney began as an attorney specializing in securities litigation and financial regulation. He was an early investor in PayPal, and later joined Founders Fund and co-founded Carmenta Management. He and his colleagues have funded Facebook, Spotify, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Lyft, AirBnB, Coupang, and DeepMind.