Social Science - Social Classes

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Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origin...

Isabel Wilkerson

#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century...

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Published: Aug 2020

Coming Apart: The State of White Amer...

Charles Murray

[Read by Traber Burns]b* Includes a bonus disc with graphs and charts./b From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that have historic...

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Published: Mar 2012

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert P...

Jeff Hobbs

An instant New York Times bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, and Entertainment Weekly, among others, this celebrated account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Having and Being Had

Eula Biss

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an...

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Published: Aug 2021

Alienated America: Why Some Places Th...

Timothy P. Carney

Now a Washington Post bestseller. Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting analysis that identifies ...

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Published: Feb 2020

Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Ec...

Collective Debt

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We’ve been told there is no...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of ...

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry canvas tote bags, and breast-feed their b...

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Published: Oct 2018

Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wea...

Justin Farrell

A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment t...

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Published: Mar 2021

Ok Boomer, Let's Talk: A Millennial D...

Jill Filipovic

“Particularly relevant in an election year...This book is full of data—on the economy, technology, and more—that will help millennials articulate their generational rage and help boomers understand where they’r...

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Published: Aug 2020

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Globa...

Chrystia Freeland

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 per...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Hidden History of Monopolies: How...

Thom Hartmann

\"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.\"—from the foreword by Ralph Nader\r\n\r\nAmerican monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energ...

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Published: Aug 2020

Nobody: Casualties of America's War o...

Marc Lamont Hill

Named a Best Book of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Editor's Choice"A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature." —New York Times In this "thought-provoking and import...

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Published: May 2017

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the...

Catherine Liu

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, pub...

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Published: Jan 2021

War of the Classes (Heathen Edition)

Jack London

Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney; 1876-1916) was a prolific American short-story writer, novelist, journalist, adventurer, and social activist, who pioneered accessible commercial fiction with two of his best-known works The Cal...

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Published: Feb 2022

Bicycle / Race

Adonia Lugo

The intersection of advocacy, city planning, and racismBicycle / Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles―and the United States―from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a caut...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's F...

Daniel Markovits

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy \r\n\r\nIt is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as ...

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Published: Sep 2020

Foreclosed America

Isaac Martin

From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults—about ten million people—lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments. The scale of this home mortgage crisis is unprecedented—and it's not over. Forecl...

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Published: Apr 2015

Very Important People: Status and Bea...

Ashley Mears

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men Million-dollar birthday parties, m...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Trouble with Diversity: How We Le...

Walter Benn Michaels

"Michaels has written a bracing polemic that should quicken the debate over what diversity really means, or should mean, in academia and beyond."―The New York Review of BooksIf there's one thing Americans agree on, it's th...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social...

Per Molander

"Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals' capabilities alone." So begins this new approach to the greatest social ill of...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Financial Diaries: How American F...

Jonathan Morduch

The ideal of the American Dream seems increasingly out of reach, even for many families who are trying to do everything right. To find out why, Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider followed 235 low- and middle-income families as they...

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Published: Oct 2018

"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": T...

Annelise Orleck

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" is an urgent...

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Published: Feb 2018

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Aff...

Keith Payne

"Brilliant. . . . an important, fascinating read arguing that inequality creates a public health crisis in America." —Nicholas Kristof, New York Times"The Broken Ladder is an important, timely, and beautifully writt...

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Published: May 2018

Spirit Level

Kate Pickett

It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor...

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Published: Apr 2011

Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elit...

Lauren A. Rivera

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers...

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Published: Apr 2016

Collective Illusions: Conformity, Com...

Todd Rose

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed b...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2022

The Unbanking of America: How the New...

Lisa Servon

“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenching. A significant contrib...

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Published: Feb 2018

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Afflu...

Rachel Sherman

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But w...

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Published: May 2019

The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice...

Peter Temin

Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist ...

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Published: Mar 2018

Wildflower: A Tale Of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

Spending the night in juvenile detention wasn't the worst thing to happen to seven year old Teresa. Her much anticipated summer vacation from Florida to California turns to years of abuse when her mentally unstable mother abducts her ...

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Published: Dec 2020
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