Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 - Charles Murray
The author is really one of the
fully accomplished writers who have written some of the bestselling
books that if you had never had an opportunity to read to them to make a
mission to own and read them, which I would insist you to begin making
means to read this one that I have here with me. And that book title
that I happen to have here with is none other than this one called
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 which the authors Charles Murray
embarks upon one of 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. Coming
apart is a model of rigorous sociological inquiry, yet it is also
highly readable.
After
the chronic incoherence of Occupy Wall Street, it comes as a blessed
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