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Random House
February 2012
On Sale: January 31, 2012
413 pages
ISBN: 0307453421
EAN: 9780307453426
Kindle: B00540PAXS
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Non-Fiction
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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