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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 Paperback – Illustrated, 15 January 2013

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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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Publisher : Christian/Forum; 1st edition (15 January 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 030745343X
ISBN-13 : 978-0307453433
Dimensions : 13.46 x 2.24 x 20.32 cm

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- 237 in Ethnic Studies (Books)
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"Mr. Murray's sobering portrait is of a nation where millions of people are losing touch with the founding virtues that have long lent American lives purpose, direction and happiness."--W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal

"Coming Apart brims with ideas about what ails America.--The Economist

"A timely investigation into a worsening class divide no one can afford to ignore."--Publishers Weekly

"[Charles Murray] argues for the need to focus on what has made the U.S. exceptional beyond its wealth and military power . . . religion, marriage, industriousness, and morality."--Booklist (starred review)

"[Charles Murray] has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society."--Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg Businessweek

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CHARLES MURRAY is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. His subsequent books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife in Burkittsville, Maryland.

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Coherent answer to difficult question.

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Fantastic collation of the deterioration of the lower tier of society. Wonderfully clear interpretations of data that provide a behavioural basis of the ever-widening gap between rich and poor. Some of the analysis utilise rather arbitrary cut-off points to illustrate cases and I suspect some of the data has been handled to fit the narrative. However, the book manages to synthesise vast amounts of information to form a coherent answer to an otherwise nebulous problem. This is one of the few books that challenge my thinking and change my point of view.

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Very interesting. It puts some American fiction into context, for example TC Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain.

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Chris X

Very interesting study

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This was enjoyable and clearly argued, and I thought ...

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This was enjoyable and clearly argued, and I thought it had a bit more of a clear thesis than Robert Putnam's Our Kids.

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Obwohl bereits vor 2012 geschrieben liest sich das Buch wie eine Erklärung all der Dinge, die zwingend zur Wahl von Trump führen musste.

Die Sprache ist sehr klar und einfach zu lesen. Er baut ein Argument langsam, aber zielstrebig auf. Fachbegriffe kommen sehr selten vor, und wenn, werden sie gut erklärt. Grafiken werden sparsam gezeigt, und sind aber jedesmal sehr sorgfältig ausgewählt und gestaltet.

Eine immens sorgfältige wissenschaftiche Arbeit, die ebenso sorgfältig vorgetragen wird.

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Explains trump and the social and economic crisis facing amercia that threatens its future

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This book is one of my favourite books that I have read showing the social collapse and degradation in American life is causing the lower class whites to become an underclass will the top 20% rocket upwards into there enclaves. Horrifying book describes the rise and appeal of Donald trump as well which, has been a consequence of this degradation.

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