Were Baby Boomers Only Out For Themselves?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 22, 2017

Author Bruce Cannon Gibney joins us to discuss his new book, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. Gibney argues Baby Boomers were raised to crave immediate satisfaction without thinking about the long-term consequences. He writes their policies have led to the currents woes of the nation including a swelling national debt, mass incarceration and a dissolving middle class.

 

 

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