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From the bestselling author of Lo sing 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 f...
From the bestselling author of Lo sing 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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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...
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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庄常飞 2012-03-01 15:06:21
必要的复古
人是否有必要向古人学习呢？法国大革命以来，许多人都认为，过去是不好的，未来是美好的，因此过去的陋习是没有必要借鉴的。事实也确是如此，今天的小学生都比200年前的哲人知道得多。 然而，《The Darwin Economy》告诉我们，人活着不但是为了自己的生活质量能够越来越好，还... (展开)
弱水三千 2014-10-06 18:59:59
Coming Apart: 独到的视角，很有警示，有点啰嗦。
这本书其实去年就看完了，一直没来得及写书评，现在很多细节都忘了，只记得个大概。Murray一直是个饱受争议的学者，跟现在美国讲政治正确性的主旋律经常唱反调。这本书他选了个避免争议的办法：只讲白人。他虚构了一贫一富两个小城：Belmont and Fishtown. 然后用社会与经济的... (展开)
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