• Coming Apart

Author: Charles Murray

ISBN: 9780307453433

Publisher: Crown Forum

Publication Date: January 26, 2012

Format: Paperback, 416 pages

Charles Murray's "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010" explores the increasing cultural and economic divide between white Americans. He argues that a growing separation has emerged between a new upper class and a lower class, diverging in values and lifestyles, with potentially serious consequences for American society. Murray examines trends in marriage, industriousness, honesty, and religiosity, demonstrating how these core virtues have weakened in some segments of white America, while remaining strong in others, leading to social and political fragmentation.

Genre: Social Science, Political Science, Sociology