Coming Apart The State of White America, 1960-2010

Name: Coming Apart The State of White America, 1960-2010
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ISBN: 9780307453426

ISBN-10: 0307453421

ISBN-13: 9780307453426

Edition: 2012

Authors: Charles Murray

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From the bestselling author of Losing GroundandThe Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.InComing 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 Apartdemonstrates 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…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Prologue: November 21, 1963



The Formation of a New Upper Class



Our Kind of People



The Foundations of the New Upper Class



A New Kind of Segregation



How Thick Is Your Bubble?



The Bright Side of the New Upper Class



The Formation of a New Lower Class



The Founding Virtues



Belmont and Fishtown



Marriage



Industriousness



Honesty



Religiosity



The Real Fishtown



The Size of the New Lower Class



Why It Matters



The Selective Collapse of American Community



The Founding Virtues and the Stuff of Life



One Nation, Divisible



Alternative Futures


Acknowledgments



Data Sources and Presentation



Supplemental Material for the Segregation Chapter



Supplemental Material for the Chapter on Belmont and Fishtown



Supplemental Material for the Marriage Chapter



Supplemental Material for the Honesty Chapter



Supplemental Material for the American Community Chapter



Supplemental Material for the Chapter About the Founding Virtues and the Stuff of Life


Notes


Bibliography


Index