After the ivory tower falls how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics -- and how to fix it
Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes--the resentful "non-college" crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries--seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to sup...
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New York, NY :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
2023.
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| Edition: | First William Morrow paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: College like my grandma used to make
- Life during wartime in Knox County, Ohio
- When college in America almost became a public good
- Why the Kent State massacre raised your tuition
- Yuppies, dittoheads, and a "big sort" : college and the culture wars
- The "whole college thing" awkwardly enters the 2020s
- Gap year. The Quad: The four people you meet in today's America
- A college debt crisis, Occupy Wall Street, and the rise of a new new Left
- From resentment of college to America's rejection of knowledge
- The soul of a new Truman Commission
- A bloodless war to save America's youth.
