Coming Apart
by Charles Murray
Murray's data on white America's divergence into a new upper class and a new lower class on marriage, work, religion and community, 1960 to 2010. Controversial author, careful data in this book; his prescriptions are more debatable than his description.
Read it if…
you want the class-divergence data regardless of politics.
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Skip it if…
the author's other work makes him unreadable to you.
Try instead: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes →
Three things you will actually use
- Founding virtues diverged by class.
- The upper class preaches what it practices less loudly.
- Community decline is measurable.
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Our verdict
Controversial author, careful data.
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