Book · 2013 · Social Science
Coming apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Why people recommend it
Coming Apart by Charles A. Murray is a sociological study examining the cultural, economic, and moral divergence of white American society into distinct classes over several decades. Saagar Enjeti recommended the book on the Lex Fridman Podcast to emphasize how four-year college degrees shape the distinct cultural environments and life trajectories people experience. Rand Paul mentioned the work on The Joe Rogan Experience to analyze social strata dividing the rich and poor. Ezra Klein discussed the book on The Ezra Klein Show to explore the ideological history surrounding elite behavior and moral scolding. On The Book Review, G. Beckerman noted Francis Fukuyama discussing the title. Sagar Enjeti brought it up again on The Joe Rogan Experience regarding the separation of communities by education level. Emily Jashinsky referenced it on The Megyn Kelly Show to illustrate how class isolation fosters disdain among those holding societal power, a point reinforced by Jonathan Hataidt on The Jordan Harbinger Show, who described it as a crucial text for understanding class divisions in America.
Who recommended it
- Emily Jashinsky Discussed
- Saagar Enjeti Recommended
- Jonathan Haidt Discussed
- Rand Paul Discussed
- Ezra Klein Discussed
- Gal Beckerman Discussed
Emily Jashinsky — 3 mentions
“Charles Murray wrote a great book in 2012 about how we are coming apart. That was the name of the book”
“and Charles Murray started documenting this with coming apart back in 2012 that as we're increasingly isolated by class and sorted by class we have really come especially from the people who control the levers of power in this country to disdain each other”
“We are coming apart as murray said 10 years ago and was kind of mocked for it But you see this showing up in political rhetoric”
Saagar Enjeti — 2 mentions
“And so one of my favorite books is called "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray. And that book really, really underscores how the cultural milieu that people swim in when they attend a four-year college degree and the trajectory of their life, not only on where they move to, who they marry, what type of grocery store they go to, their”
“charles murray who shall not be named actually wrote an entire book about this called coming apart this was based upon 2010 data”
Jonathan Haidt — 2 mentions
“He's just written a book about social class this is the most important thing to understand how America is coming apart by social class his book is called coming apart”
“This is the most important thing to understand how America is coming apart by social class His book is called coming apart”
Rand Paul — 1 mention
“There was a book written by Charles Murray years ago called Coming Apart and it it compared people and said these are the rich people in your society and these are the poor people just divided into two groups...”
Ezra Klein — 1 mention
“I mean I've always taken the you're all miserable cat ladies Dynamic of him as trying to instantiate something that was sort of floating around the right for a while like I was associated with Charles Murray's 2012 book coming apart and and one of the arguments Murray makes towards the end of that book is that the elite needs”
Gal Beckerman — 1 mention
“so uh he talks about reading charl Murray's coming apart Robert putnam's our kids uh I think both those books uh came out in this past year”