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Coming Apart : the State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray; OverDrive, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity . “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York Times 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 eros

Who reads Coming Apart : the State of White America, 1960-2010?

Author

Charles Murray; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

The Crown Publishing Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307453440

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Sociology, History

Rating

3.73 / 5 (449 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14