Class matters

Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Times Books, c2005.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New York Times.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Shadowy lines that still divide /
  • Janny Scott,
  • David Leonhardt
  • Life at the top in America isn't just better, it's longer /
  • Janny Scott
  • A marriage of unequals /
  • Tamar Lewin
  • Up from the holler : living in two worlds, at home in neither /
  • Tamar Lewin
  • On a Christian mission to the top /
  • Laurie Goodstein,
  • David D. Kirkpatrick
  • The college dropout boom /
  • David Leonhardt
  • No degree, and no way back to the middle /
  • Timothy Egan
  • Fifteen years on the bottom rung /
  • Anthony DePalma
  • When the Joneses wear jeans /
  • Jennifer Steinhauer
  • The five-bedroom, six-figure rootless life /
  • Peter T. Kilborn
  • Old Nantucket warily meets the new /
  • Geraldine Fabrikant
  • Richest are leaving even the rich far behind /
  • David Cay Johnston
  • In fiction, a long history of fixation on the social gap /
  • Charles McGrath
  • Angela Whitiker's climb /
  • Isabel Wilkerson
  • Encounters with class
  • Appendix. The New York Times poll on class.