Coming Apart (Audio)
ISBN:
9781455161799 (1455161799)
Publish date: June 1st 2012
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Upon hearing about this book on NPR, I thought it would be much more a study about the growing class divisions... and it is, but that's not it's central theme. Libertarian Charles Murray begins with the premise that the United States was designed as a limited government democracy in which most of th...
The political rhetoric from the past American presidential campaign could easily give one the impression that the USA is one big happy country made up almost entirely of "middle class" people. (This sounds as credible as Lake Wobegon's "all the children are above average.") The book sees things diff...
In the early part of the decade of the sixties, hope abounded, the class distinctions were small, poverty had decreased steadily, the moral code was totally different, promiscuity was frowned upon, the sanctity of marriage was primary, honesty was a virtue to be extolled, hard work was honored. Grat...
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