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...
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...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert P...
Jeff HobbsAn 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 ...
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...
Alienated America: Why Some Places Th...
Timothy P. CarneyNow 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 ...
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Ec...
Collective DebtDebtors 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...
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of ...
Elizabeth Currid-HalkettIn today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.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...
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wea...
Justin FarrellA 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...
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...
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Globa...
Chrystia FreelandA 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...
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...
Nobody: Casualties of America's War o...
Marc Lamont HillNamed 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...
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the...
Catherine LiuA 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...
War of the Classes (Heathen Edition)
Jack LondonJack 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...
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...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's F...
Daniel MarkovitsA 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 ...
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...
Very Important People: Status and Bea...
Ashley MearsA 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...
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...
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...
The Financial Diaries: How American F...
Jonathan MorduchThe 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...
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": T...
Annelise OrleckThe 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...
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...
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...
Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elit...
Lauren A. RiveraAmericans 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...
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Com...
Todd RoseDrawing 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...
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...
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Afflu...
Rachel ShermanA 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...
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice...
Peter TeminWhy 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 ...
Wildflower: A Tale Of Transcendence
Teresa Van WoySpending 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 ...