Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
I am less than enthusiastic about books which are mostly statistics and the interpretation of those statistics. Honestly, page after page of statistics, graphs, and interpretation of graphs and statistics. A summary paragraph at the end of each chapter would have provided a simpler (and quicker) way to read the book.
Coming Apart seems to have generated a lot of controversy among the talking heads but I don't see why. Surely it can't come as a surprise that the divide between the economic/educational classes has grown in the last 50 years.
I did find his list of American virtues interesting but not something I wasn't already cognizant of. And the waning of these among the lower economic class is rather apparent to everyone.
I am less than enthusiastic about books which are mostly statistics and the interpretation of those statistics. Honestly, page after page of statistics, graphs, and interpretation of graphs and statistics. A summary paragraph at the end of each chapter would have provided a simpler (and quicker) way to read the book.
Coming Apart seems to have generated a lot of controversy among the talking heads but I don't see why. Surely it can't come as a surprise that the divide between the economic/educational classes has grown in the last 50 years.
I did find his list of American virtues interesting but not something I wasn't already cognizant of. And the waning of these among the lower economic class is rather apparent to everyone.
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