One Nation under AARP: The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future

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Frederick Lynch

One Nation under AARP

The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future

Frederick Lynch

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University of California Press
20 June 2011

Age groups: the elderly; Welfare & benefit systems; Pressure groups & lobbying; Medical insurance

"This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)-the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security. Frederick R. Lynch addresses AARP's courtship of 78 million aging baby boomers and the possibility of harnessing what may be the largest ever senior voting bloc to defend threatened cutbacks to Social Security, Medicare, and under-funded pension systems. Based on years of research, interviews with key strategists, and analyses of hundreds documents, One Nation under AARP profiles a largely white generation, raised in the relatively tranquil 1950s and growing old in a twenty-first century nation buffeted by rapid economic, cultural, and demographic change. Lynch argues that an ideologically divided boomer generation must decide whether to resist entitlement reductions through its own political mobilization or, by default, to empower AARP as it tries to shed its ""greedy geezer"" stereotype with an increasingly post-boomer agenda for multigenerational equity."

By: Frederick Lynch
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520256538
ISBN 10: 0520256530
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 June 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: Not Going Quietly 1. Boomer Basics: Generation, Culture, Demographics 2. Old Age in a New Society 3. Boomers' Senior Power Potential: From Social Protest to Self- Preservation 4. Crash Landing for a Self-Critical Generation 5. Not Your Father's AARP: Bill Novelli Builds a New Boomer Brand 6. AARP Turns Fifty: The Battle for Health Care Reform 7. You Can't Always Get What You Want: Me, We, or AARP? Appendix: Methodological Odyssey Notes Index

Frederick R. Lynch is a government professor at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Invisible Victims and The Diversity Machine.

Reviews for One Nation under AARP: The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future

An engaging, insightful portrait of America's retiring baby boomers and the way they are changing the politics of aging. -- Aaron Klink Library Journal Well written, insightful, and on target ... a fascinating analysis of where boomers are headed, the many challenges they face. Foreword