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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 power...more
Published March 7th 2017 by Hachette Books
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This was a fun, fascinating - and somewhat depressing - read, offset by the author's witty humor and thorough research. With such a bold title, I was curious how Gibney would make the case. As he sees it, it's not that every Boomer is a sociopath, but rather that as a generation, the Boomers have overseen a series of personal and policy choices that have systematically benefited themselves at the expense of the younger generations in a sociopathic manner. After finishing it, I'm convinced that t...more
If you are going to read this book, something you have to keep in mind is that the author is an extremely wealthy and successful investment banker and venture capitalist. Throughout the book, he fails to see that what has actually caused the problems in America that he points to in the data such as the decrease in savings rate, increase in cost for college, failure to address environment change, and discrediting of science are people exactly like himself. He uses broad generalizations about cher...more
I read an ARC provided by Hachette Books that was written before Trump had won the Republican primaries so there may be edits made by Gibney in response to the election.
I'll clarify my biases at the outset by saying I'm a Canadian Millennial (born in 1988) raised by Silent/Lost generation parents (born during WWII) so I wasn't raised by Baby Boomers.
This is not the first time I've seen Baby Boomers called sociopaths and I think it's an understandable response to the labels put on Millennials who...more
Jul 10, 2017Ian Scuffling rated it really liked it
Shelves: 21st-century, print-aint-dead, read-in-2017, reality-bites
3.667 stars. Repeating, of course.
I first heard about this book from a friend who heard an interview with Bruce Cannon Gibney on NPR. I listened to the interview, which featured talk about how the Boomers were sociopathic due to their high exposure to television, lead (paint, fuel, et. al.), hedonism (drug culture, sex culture), and often just rode on the coattails of their parents' generation for all their claims about civil rights, etc. Compelling arguments. The thing is, this book is really m...more
I am not actually going to read this one, because I feel like I could have written it. If you have any doubts about the validity about my perpetual rant against Baby Boomers, this might make interesting reading.
Instead of a review, I am adding my current message to our Democratic Party Leadership.
I was appalled by
'POLITICS - CONGRESSIONAL MEMO - For Democrats, Being Out of Power Has Its Perks,” By EMMARIE HUETTEMANFEB. 12, 2017, The New York Times.
What if anything does the House Leadership care...more
May 07, 2017Todd N rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Man oh man this is a long and dense book. But I kept reminding myself that hating on Baby Boomers is a marathon not a sprint.
In this book we learn that the primary division in politics since about Proposition 13 hasn't been Left vs. Right -- it has been Baby Boomer vs. all other generations and Baby Boomer vs. decency and Baby Boomer vs. the good of America and Baby Boomer vs. Earth.
I'm cool with that. I think Baby Boomers suck because there are at least three classic rock FM stations in any maj...more
Mar 11, 2017Marina Mangiararina rated it it was ok
The first ~120 pages of this book were fairly enlightening, as Gibney attempts to explain the social reasons for Baby Boomer's self-absorbedness. The arguments given are compelling, and statistically backed.
But when Gibney dips into politics, it's all stuff I've heard before. And I'm finding myself hard pressed to blame baby boomers for the demise of the United States. Might we forget that generations preceding the boomers were extremely repressive towards women, minorities, or those that were L...more
Such a great book. I've always wondered what exactly happened to the baby boomers in my life. For awhile I thought maybe it was the time they spent under school desks during the Cuban Missile Crisis that fried their brain. Obviously life is more complex than just one moment in history.
George Carlin nailed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZ-C...
My Grandparents were into books and science. My parents (baby boomers) not at all. Same with my husband's parents and a good amount of my friend's p...more
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Apr 05, 2017Kyle Nicholas rated it really liked it
This is the book I would have written. I've been discoursing about the Boomers and their drive to ruin all things - and then blame the young - for years now. The only things I would have omitted, or at least trumpeted the FACTS as opposed to the liberal rhetoric bandied about like an expensive joint, are these:
1. Aggressive policing works. Stop-and-frisk nabs criminals off the streets and is a huge success. This has been proven by research (that the author chooses to ignore because it blights hi...more
This was a refreshing, novel, and robustly researched book. Let's acknowledge the elephant in the room - the title is a tad too provocative, and even the author doesn't seem to think all that many boomers are literally sociopaths. Think of it as a way to frame a generation's choices, actions and behaviors. And in that sense, the book cuts through the exhausted (and exhausting) left/right ideological tropes like a knife through butter. Instead, Gibney contends that the real problem with American...more

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Apr 04, 2017Chance Lee rated it it was amazing
Beyond the sensational title, Gibney lays out convincing evidence that the fault for America's stagnant growth, poor education, and expanding debt and waistlines lies at the feet of the Worst Generation: The Boomers. Born into a world of great opportunity, they kept it all for themselves. Their parents paid all the bills and, once The Greatest Generation died off, Boomer children now foot the bill.
As they took power in government, their selfishness meant that government policies were made and a...more
Jul 22, 2018Ryan rated it really liked it
This is a surprisingly good book, especially the first few chapters in which the author describes the influences that created an entire generation of sociopaths. His case is persuasive, especially given the vast supporting data which he covers extensively for the rest of the book.
But while Gibney accurately diagnoses the problems, he's less adept at providing the solutions. That's because he seems to believe higher taxes over a rather lengthy period of time are part of what's required to reverse...more
Jun 16, 2017Scott Lupo rated it really liked it
From the title I thought this book would be little tongue-in-cheek. Not so much. Gibney takes the definition of Sociopath from the DSM-V and applies it to the Baby Boomer generation. And it is seriously damning. I have certainly had my issues with the Boomers, as any of my friends could tell you, but Gibney takes it to another level. He covers so many topics including the Vietnam war, science, technology, economics, debt, social security, taxes, politics, neoliberalism, and much more. No doubt i...more
Mar 20, 2017Biblio Files (takingadayoff) rated it liked it
The loathing that Bruce Gibney feels toward baby boomers is a little frightening. And that's probably the most important thing about A Generation of Sociopaths. It's a long book and Gibney lays out his arguments about how Boomers are to blame for everything that is wrong with America. He has some points, to be sure, but it's a bit overdone, and there's no attempt to find any redeeming qualities of an entire generation. Surely we get a little credit for LGBTQ rights and classic rock. In any case,...more
May 19, 2017Jay Dougherty rated it did not like it
More of a polemic than a fact filled critique of the baby boomers. this book ignores larger historical trends to meet the author's thesis of baby boomers as a generation of sociopaths. There is an entire chapter dedicated to the anti-scientific tendencies of boomers as if it was something novel ignoring that many of the most successful technology companies of the last 40 years were created by them (Microsoft and Apple) and the trend towards anti-scientific thought tends way before this generatio...more
May 08, 2017Eric Wurm rated it it was amazing
Can an entire generation of people be sociopaths? No. Can an entire generation frequently act as if they were sociopaths? Bruce Cannon Gibney says the answer is 'Yes!'
The author claims in his lengthy and well-cited book that the voting patterns and political activity of the 'Boomer' generation show traits that can be associated with sociopathy in the Diagnotic Statistical Manual (DSM-V). In each chapter he discusses particular sociopathic traits and how they pertain to the mindset of the Boomer...more
It's easier to criticize than to create...and this is definitely the former.
I read the first 75 pages and skimmed the rest but it was filled with so much bullsh** and lies of omission that the book makes for well referenced but not well researched pseudo non-fiction. While the author gets the point across that there has been a general selfishness in the economic and political arenas for some time, he fails by attributing it only to Boomers. One could easily argue (and probably make a better and...more
Jan 12, 2018Marc rated it it was amazing
This book is a fascinating and important study of how the Baby Boomers inherited a debtless, generous and left to center government and turned it into a neoliberal enterprise on the credit cards of future generations. The author is very careful at not denouncing boomers as individuals but critics them as a generation that made foolish economic and political choices in total disregard for long term consequences. It really focuses on the 'Boomer Agenda' that started in the late 70's but really p...more
This one is a bit out there and it's very much on purpose. He makes a strong and well researched case that the Baby Boomers have essentially screwed every other generation in the country through the use of their larger numbers and their tendency to vote. They have legislated for their own benefit from the moment they turned 18 and continue to do so today with little regard for others. While I wouldn't call any of the specific Boomers I know a sociopath, their generation has behaved like that man...more
Recommended by a friend as a way to explain rise in white supremacy and how seemingly nice people were condoning bigotry against refugees, LGBT, etc
Guess easy summary is baby boomers are selfish and want to keep the whole pie for themselves. Author feels they got this way by being told they were special thus putting individual wants above the needs of others.
Felt this was an oversimplification and he tried too hard to stress his unproven theory. Hard to read so I just skimmed through it.
Yikes.
To label an entire generation of people as sociopaths is irresponsible, not to mention a nauseating practice of pseudo-psychology...which is a shame because there is something important to say about the selfishness of the baby boomer generation.
Perhaps if the writer (and his editor) discarded the first five chapters, we, the readers, could have a credible argument against the boomers. Unfortunately, however, Gibney paints with the broadest of brushes in the opening chapters and discredi...more
When the Occupy protests sprung up in 2011, a Gen X-er commented to me that the more provocative conflict for him was intergenerational warfare, not class warfare. He thought that anyone under 30 ought to be marching for Social Security and Medicare reform, admittedly an unsexy issue. 6 years later, this book has given credence to that remark via thoroughly researched policy and personal behavior patterns on the part of the Boomers.
Requires reading for Millennials especially. Our futures have be...more
I tend not to read politicized polemics from either side of the aisle but a Washington Post review and the title got my attention here. Yes, it's like watching a heated rant from Fox News or MSNBC but the author does a better job providing data than those biased on-air diatribes (with the caveat below).
The fact remains that we are facing great fiscal concerns with Medicare, Social Security, etc. and those in my generation presume those safety nets we are paying into will not be there for us. Th...more
Controversial and timely...a great read!
I read this book and Bob Woodward's 'Fear' back-to-back and that, all told, that took me about 5 months to finish. It turns out that reading about something that is not surprising at all and that you agree with 100% is incredibly boring and tedious. At the end of the day, there's nothing all that new or interesting in either of these books. To summarize both books: the Baby Boomers are a bunch of entitled pricks that don't realize how they good they've got it and rose to prominence on all the in...more
Gibney is a bit harsh to the Boomers in power and maybe places too much blame on some current issues. By a bit harsh I mean he really disdains all Boomers it seems. Although I cannot get behind everything he writes, I do think he has valid points on social security and infrastructure. Gibney complains about the Boomers running the well dry and not paying back into the fund leaving future generations with no Social Security. According to SSA.gov in 2034 benefits will start dwindling (https://www....more
Aug 15, 2018Anna Maria Ballester Bohn rated it liked it · review of another edition
One third enlightening, one third infuriating, the other third I did not understand. I learned a lot, and it may be true that Boomers did not display the most social behaviour, but I'm not sold on the idea of a sociopathic generation, especially when one of the reasons given for why they became that way is Dr. Spock and being bottle-fed. Say what? (Also, nuclear energy is *not* the solution for everything, if only because there is the tiny little matter of nuclear waste that will infect the eart...more
Jul 06, 2017Joshua rated it really liked it
A Generation of Sociopaths chronicles the rise of the 'baby boomers' into political power and determines that their policies are all directly tied only to their own self-interest and greed, thus leaving the American economy and stature in it's current position.
After reading, it's hard to argue with Gibney. He backs up all his points with reliable data, however, at times it feels like he is stretching the DSM V definition of sociopath in order to lump the vast majority of the boomer generation in...more
Oct 08, 2018Karen Ng rated it liked it

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Shelves: sociology, history, brain-behavior, business
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Not all baby boomers are sociopaths, but the baby boom after WWII did mess up a lot of things for the following generations. We also cannot deny with such a large demographics, we have our fair share of sociopaths: 45, Madoff... And a few others came to mind. But, human and individuals aside. Demographics is what screwed lots of the systems that once worked when each generation had the same birth and death rate. ( Social Security, real estate market) The aging population and the lack of replacem...more
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“Uncle Jim may think kids these days are terrible (Snapchat! Tattoos! Jeans in the office!), but when confronted with the evidence of what actually happened in the Sixties, he might fall refreshingly silent, especially when you explain exactly how many of your tax dollars subsidize his health care. The nonsociopathic wing of the Boomer generation may also find value in seeing the acts of their contemporaries in a different light and be persuaded to stand against a sociopathic agenda that serves them at the expense of their children.” — 4 likes
“The central theme of this book is that America’s present dilemma resulted substantially and directly from choices made by the Baby Boomers. Their collective, pathological self-interest derailed a long train of progress, while exacerbating and ignoring existential threats like climate change. The Boomers’ sociopathic need for instant gratification pushed them to equally sociopathic policies, causing them to fritter away an enormous inheritance, and when that was exhausted, to mortgage the future. When the consequences became troubling, Boomer leadership engaged in concealment and deception in a desperate effort to hold the system together just long enough for their generational constituencies to pass from the scene. The story of the Boomers is, in other words, the story of a generation of sociopaths running amok.” — 3 likes
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