About this title: A team of "New York Times" reporters spent more than a year exploring the ways in which class--defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation--influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity.
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Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2005-09-02
ISBN-13:9780805080551ISBN:0805080554
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Date Published: 2005-09-02
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Date Published: 2005
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Times Books
Date Published: 2005
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"Collection of stories from the New York Times on issues of class. An interesting and enlightening read, and easy to pick up for one or two essays so not a big time commitment."
"The kind of articles that really make you think. It's hard to pinpoint what class really means, and how it changes due to where you live and over time. There's a great chapter in here about a lawyer from Kentucky and how she doesn't feel like she fits into either the class she was born into or the class she's in now, and there's another great one about the new super wealthy on Nantucket. It almost makes you sympathize with the old money people, crazy as that seems. Oh, and there's another great bit about that class of upper middle class people who get moved around the country doing business jobs, and living in ritzy suburbs that all blend into sameness. Really, the more I think about this, everybody should read this book. This is an important book. People should be thinking about this stuff."
"A thought-provoking collection of essays by New York Times journalists, written in 2005 on various interpretations of class in America. By examining education, social status, race, and other indicators, these reporters paint a compelling picture of the ever-widening gap between the very rich, the very poor, and the disappearing middle class. Not all of these articles are surprising--in fact, some may be exactly what you'd expect--but several, especially those regarding education and the ways in which hard work alone is no longer enough to achive the 'American Dream,' are worth a read."
"This is a series of journalistic essays by the NY Times about how class matters today in our society. I particularly enjoyed the essays on Alpharetta, GA relocation families, Nantucket, and Christian evangelicals. There were several other essays in this book which reminded me of "Nickeled and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenriech, which I enjoyed and is a great book about the working class in America."
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