The complacent class : the self-defeating quest for the American dream
Title:
The complacent class : the self-defeating quest for the American dream
Author:
Cowen, Tyler, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
241 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
Examines the trend of Americans away from the traditionally mobile, risk-accepting, and adaptable tendencies that defined them for much of recent history, and toward stagnation and comfort, and how this development has the potential to make future changes more disruptive. --Publisher's description.
Language:
English
Contents:
The complacent class and its dangers -- Why Americans have stopped moving, or Is your hometown really so special? -- The reemergence of segregation -- Why Americans stopped creating -- The respite of the well-ordered match: love, music, and even your dog -- Why Americans stopped rioting and instead legalized marijuana -- How a dynamic society looks and feels -- Political stagnation, the dwindling of true democracy, and Alexis de Tocqueville as prophet of our time -- The return of chaos, and why the complacent class cannot hold.
ISBN:
9781250108692
Format :
Book
