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The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass
Myron Magnet
ISBN: 9781893554023
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Encounter Books,USA
Edition: New edition
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Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today's urban underclass into existence. Changed beliefs and lifestyle experimentation among the white middle class produced often catastrophic changes in attitudes toward marriage and childbearing…
Myron Magnet's "The Dream and the Nightmare" argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today's underclass - overwhelmingly urban, dismayingly minority - into existence. Lifestyle experimentation among the white middle class often produced catastrophic changes in attitudes toward marriage and parenting, the work ethic and dependency in those at the bottom of the social ladder, and closed down their exits to the middle class.
| ISBN | 1893554023 | | Pages | 238 | | ISBN13 | 9781893554023
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Encounter Books,USA | | Weight (grammes) | 367 | | Imprint | Encounter Books,USA | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2000 | | Width (mm) | 144 | | Library of Congress | 92023260 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 305.560973 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Alternative ISBN | 9780786107377 |
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