Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
$17.95 Add to cartA surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as material- Author: Sherman, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191905
- Language: English
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America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay
$28.99 Read moreBetween 1920 and 1950, America saw an unprecedented expansion of wealth and power underwritten by technological innovation, cultural confidence, and victory in war. American elites won World War II, r… [more below]
- Author: Buskirk, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641771747
- Language: English
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After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics–And How to Fix It
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college–the great political and cultural fault line of American life
Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award
- Author: Bunch, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063077000
- Language: English
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Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
$20.99 Add to cartNow 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-h
- Author: Carney, Timothy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062797123
- Language: English
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
$21.00 Add to cartGroundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.
“Get your hands on this book.”-Bill- Author: Wilkinson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1608193411
- Language: English
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The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
$17.95 Add to cartIn 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 … [more below]
- Author: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183171
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Equality
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend tow
A Public Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295463
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
$19.95 Add to cartOne New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to pris
- Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066024
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$14.95 Add to cartIn his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552584
- Language: English
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Ti
- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230256
- Language: English
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Finalis- Author: Arsenault, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799686
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities
$30.00 Add to cartAn enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell’s brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations h… [more below]- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645634
- Language: English
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
$30.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics today, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. In- Author: Nolan, Hamilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306830922
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
$21.95 Read moreMajora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.
“My musical, In the H- Author: Carter, Majora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1523000295
- Language: English
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Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It
$19.99 Add to cartNobody who sits in traffic on Sedona, Arizona’s main stretch or stands shoulder-to-shoulder in its many souvenir shops would call it a ghost town.
Neither would anyone renting a room for $2,000 a mon… [more below]- Author: O’Brien, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609699
- Language: English
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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See
$30.00 Add to cartAn indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it
T- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 11-Jul-23
- ISBN10: 1541701461
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$19.95 Add to cartA 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- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24
- Author: Farrell, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217122
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593678540
- Language: English
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Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class
$20.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.
First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthrop- Author: Davis, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226817989
- Language: English
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Having and Being Had
$18.00 Add to cartA 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 ethical … [more below]- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31, 2021
- ISBN10: 0525537465
- Language: English
