Fascinating book!
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From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve\, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart\,
Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are
different in kind from anything we have ever known\, focusing on whites
as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not
break along lines of race or ethnicity.
Drawing on five decades of statistics and research\, Coming Apart
demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged
so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their
underlying American kinship-- divergence that has nothing to do with
income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad.
The top and bottom of white America
increasingly live in different cultures\, Murray argues\, with the
powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind\,
ignorant about life in mainstream America\, and the lower class suffering
from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of
the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the
American project at risk.
The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.
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