Coming Apart The State of White America, 1960-2010

Charles Murray, Traber Burns

eAudio - 2012

Includes a bonus disc with graphs, charts, and more 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 have historically 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—a diverg...ence 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... more