The Complacent Class : : the Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
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The complacent class and its dangers -- Why Americans have stopped moving, or Is your hometown really so special? -- The reemergence of segregation -- Why Americans stopped creating -- The respite of the well-ordered match: love, music, and even your dog -- Why Americans stopped rioting and instead legalized marijuana -- How a dynamic society looks and feels -- Political stagnation, the dwindling of true democracy, and Alexis de Tocqueville as prophet of our time -- The return of chaos, and why the complacent class cannot hold.
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PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 241 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250108692
1250108691
SUBJECTS
Social mobility.
Social classes.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-