Get personalized recommendations and earn points toward a free book!
Before you go...
Check Out
The Bestselling Books of All Time
See the List
While America Aged by Roger Lowenstein

While America Aged

How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis

How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis

By Roger Lowenstein

By Roger Lowenstein

By Roger Lowenstein

By Roger Lowenstein

Best Seller
Paperback $18.00

Apr 28, 2009 | 288 Pages

Ebook $14.99

May 01, 2008 | 288 Pages

All Formats
+
    While America Aged by Roger Lowenstein
    Paperback
    Apr 28, 2009 | 288 Pages
    See All Formats (1) +

    Paperback
    –

    • Paperback $18.00

      Apr 28, 2009 | 288 Pages

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook $14.99

      May 01, 2008 | 288 Pages

    Buy the Ebook:

    About While America Aged

    The retirement crisis facing America-and the road map for a way out-from The New York Times bestselling author of Origins of the Crash

    In the last several decades, corporations and local governments made ruinous pension and healthcare promises to American workers. With these now coming due, they threaten to destroy twenty-first- century America’s hopes for a comfortable retirement. With his trademark narrative panache, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein analyzes three fascinating case studies-General Motors, the New York City subway system, and the city of San Diego-each an object lesson and a compelling historical saga that illuminates how the pension crisis developed. Cumulative retirement deficits are approaching $1 trillion, and Lowenstein warns that these are only the first. Retirement pensions will continue to be a critical issue as the country ages, and While America Aged is the urgent call to action and prescription for reform.

    About While America Aged

    The retirement crisis facing America-and the road map for a way out-from The New York Times bestselling author of Origins of the Crash

    In the last several decades, corporations and local governments made ruinous pension and healthcare promises to American workers. With these now coming due, they threaten to destroy twenty-first- century America’s hopes for a comfortable retirement. With his trademark narrative panache, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein analyzes three fascinating case studies-General Motors, the New York City subway system, and the city of San Diego-each an object lesson and a compelling historical saga that illuminates how the pension crisis developed. Cumulative retirement deficits are approaching $1 trillion, and Lowenstein warns that these are only the first. Retirement pensions will continue to be a critical issue as the country ages, and While America Aged is the urgent call to action and prescription for reform.

    Also by Roger Lowenstein

    America's Bank
    The End of Wall Street
    Buffett
    Origins of the Crash
    When Genius Failed
    See all books by Roger Lowenstein

    Also by Roger Lowenstein

    America's Bank
    The End of Wall Street
    Buffett
    Origins of the Crash
    When Genius Failed
    See all books by Roger Lowenstein

    About Roger Lowenstein

    Roger Lowenstein, author of the bestselling Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, reported for The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, and wrote the Journal’s stock market column, Heard on the Street, from 1989 to 1991 and the… More about Roger Lowenstein

    About Roger Lowenstein

    Roger Lowenstein, author of the bestselling Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, reported for The Wall Street Journal for more than a decade, and wrote the Journal’s stock market column, Heard on the Street, from 1989 to 1991 and the… More about Roger Lowenstein

    Product Details

    Category: Personal Finance | Economics | Management

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Apr 28, 2009 | 288 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143115380

    Category: Personal Finance | Economics | Management

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 01, 2008 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781440639401

    People Who Read While America Aged Also Read

    ‹ ›
    The Histories
    Command and Control
    The Better Angels of Our Nature
    Bomb Power
    Imperial
    Inside the Kingdom
    The Healing of America
    The Battle for America
    The Ascent of Money
    The Wordy Shipmates
    Revolutionary Suicide
    Angler
    48 Liberal Lies About American History
    In Defense of Food
    Reappraisals
    Here Comes Everybody
    Free Lunch
    Censoring Science
    Banana
    The Second Civil War
    The Age of Turbulence
    Write It When I'm Gone
    Exposing the Real Che Guevara
    The Ancien Régime and the Revolution
    Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
    It's Not News, It's Fark
    The Secret History of the American Empire
    The Assault on Reason
    Russian Thinkers
    War on the Middle Class
    The Republic
    The Braindead Megaphone
    Ten days that Shook the World
    The Greatest Story Ever Sold
    What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America
    On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
    The New Spaniards
    Between Past and Future
    Mao Zedong
    The Battle for Spain
    The Communist Manifesto
    The Social Contract
    The Fall of the Roman Republic
    Why We Can't Wait
    Desert Solitaire

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Praise

    ” Financial journalist Roger Lowenstein uses the stories of three deeply encumbered institutions . . . as examples not only of the way most individual Americans conduct their personal finances, but also of how the country as a whole has long lived beyond its means. . . . Gripping.”
    -Phillip Longman, The Washington Post

    Table Of Contents

    While America AgedIntroduction

    Part One: Who Owns General Motors?

    1. Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit
    2. The Anti-Reuther

    Part Two: The Public Freight

    3. An Entitled Class
    4. On Strike!

    Part Three: Debacle in San Diego

    5. Finest City
    6. Pension Plot
    7. The Bill Comes Due

    Conclusion: The Way Out
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    Download our Spring Fiction Sampler Now
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    TASTE img

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    LitFlash

    The eBooks you want at the lowest prices

    Read it Forward

    Read it first. Pass it on!