Coming apart
Subtitle: the state of white America, 1960-2010
By: Charles Murray
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Forum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780307453426; 9780307453440
Subjects: Whites; Social conditions; Social classes; Economic conditions; Social mobility
Description: A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: November 21, 1963
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: The Formation of a New Upper Class; label: 1
title: Our Kind of People
pagenum: 23; label: 2
title: The Foundations of the New Upper Class
pagenum: 46; label: 3
title: A New Kind of Segregation
pagenum: 69; label: 4
title: How Thick Is Your Bubble?
pagenum: 100; label: 5
title: The Bright Side of the New Upper Class
pagenum: 116; label: II
title: The Formation of a New Lower Class; label: 6
title: The Founding Virtues
pagenum: 127; label: 7
title: Belmont and Fishtown
pagenum: 144; label: 8
title: Marriage
pagenum: 149; label: 9
title: Industriousness
pagenum: 168; label: 10
title: Honesty
pagenum: 189; label: 11
title: Religiosity
pagenum: 2000; label: 12
title: The Real Fishtown
pagenum: 209; label: 13
title: The Size of the New Lower Class
pagenum: 226; label: III
title: Why It Matters; label: 14
title: The Selective Collapse of America Community
pagenum: 236; label: 15
title: The Founding Virtues and the Stuff of Life
pagenum: 253; label: 16
title: One Nation, Divisible
pagenum: 269; label: 17
title: Alternative Futures
pagenum: 278; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 307; label: A
title: Data Sources and Presentation
pagenum: 310; label: B
title: Supplemental Material for the Segregation Chapter
pagenum: 315; label: C
title: Supplemental Material for the Chapter on Belmont and Fishtown
pagenum: 321; label: D
title: Supplemental Material for the Marriage Chapter
pagenum: 337; label: E
title: Supplemental Material for the Honesty Chapter
pagenum: 342; label: F
title: Supplemental Material for the American Community Chapter
pagenum: 353; label: G
title: Supplemental Material for the Chapter About the Founding Virtues and the Stuff of Life
pagenum: 356; title: Notes
pagenum: 358; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 389; title: Index
pagenum: 399