Class matters /
correspondents of the New York times ; introduction by Bill Keller.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Times Books, c2005.
- xviii, 268 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collected from a series of articles published in the New York Times in the spring of 2005.
Shadowy lines that still divide / Life at the top in America isn't just better, it's longer / A marriage of unequals / Up from the holler : living in two worlds, at home in neither / On a Christian mission to the top / The college dropout boom / No degree, and no way back to the middle / Fifteen years on the bottom rung / When the Joneses wear jeans / The five-bedroom, six-figure rootless life / Old Nantucket warily meets the new / Richest are leaving even the rich far behind / In fiction, a long history of fixation on the social gap / Angela Whitiker's climb / Encounters with class -- Janny Scott, David Leonhardt -- Janny Scott -- Tamar Lewin -- Tamar Lewin -- Laurie Goodstein, David D. Kirkpatrick -- David Leonhardt -- Timothy Egan -- Anthony DePalma -- Jennifer Steinhauer -- Peter T. Kilborn -- Geraldine Fabrikant -- David Cay Johnston -- Charles McGrath -- Isabel Wilkerson -- Appendix. The New York Times poll on class.
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