Coming Apart - Hardcover

"a timely investigation into a worsening class divide no one can afford to ignore."
--"Publisher's Weekly"
"[Charles Murray] argues for the need to focus on what has made the U.S. exceptional beyond its wealth and military power...religion, marriage, industriousness, and morality."
--"Booklist (Starred Review)"

"Charles Murray ... has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society."
--Roger Lowenstein, "Bloomberg Businessweek"

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"I'll be shocked if there's another book this year as important as Charles Murray's 'Coming Apart.'"
--David Brooks, "The New York Times
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"Mr. Murray's sobering portrait is of a nation where millions of people are losing touch with the founding virtues that have long lent American lives purpose, direction and happiness."
"--"W. Bradford Wilcox," The Wall Street Journal
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"'Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010' brims with ideas about what ails America."
"-- The Economist"
"a timely investigation into a worsening class divide no one can afford to ignore."
--"Publisher's Weekly"
"[Charles Murray] argues for the need to focus on what has made the U.S. exceptional beyond its wealth and military power...religion, marriage, industriousness, and morality."
--"Booklist (Starred Review)"
"Charles Murray ... has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society."
--Roger Lowenstein, "Bloomberg Businessweek"

" "

"I ll be shocked if there s another book this year as important as Charles Murray s 'Coming Apart.'
--David Brooks, TheNew York Times

"Mr. Murray's sobering portrait is of a nation where millions of people are losing touch with the founding virtues that have long lent American lives purpose, direction and happiness."
--W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal

"'Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010' brims with ideas about what ails America."
--The Economist
a timely investigation into a worsening class divide no one can afford to ignore.
--Publisher's Weekly
[Charles Murray] argues for the need to focus on what has made the U.S. exceptional beyond its wealth and military power...religion, marriage, industriousness, and morality.
--Booklist (Starred Review)
"Charles Murray ... has written an incisive, alarming, and hugely frustrating book about the state of American society."
--Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg Businessweek

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The controversial best-selling author of The Bell Curve presents a sobering critique of the white American class structure that 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, with culturally disastrous potential.