From the bestselling author of Lo"sing 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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