Alienated America why some places thrive while others collapse
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 the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: it is not purely the result of economics as...
| Main Author: | Carney, Timothy P., 1978- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- It takes a village : where the American dream lives
- Progress at a price : the changing American dream, 1955-2018
- "They've chosen not to keep up" : is it economics or culture?
- American decay : broken places, broken people
- "I don't" : the dissolution of the family
- Bowling alone : the dissolution of civil society
- It's about church : America's indispensable institution
- Overcentralization : how big business and bit government erode civil society
- Hyper-individualism : how the modern economy and the sexual revolution erode civil society
- The alienated : Trump country
- The elites : the village of man
- The church people : the village of God
- Overcoming alienation : problems and solutions.