THE BIBLIOGRAPHY THAT GOES WITH DAVID BROOKS’ ARTICLE

Mary Strachan Scriver
1 min readAug 4, 2021

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https://medium.com/the-atlantic/how-the-bobos-broke-america-ddb70cda2343

Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell

The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits

https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-gentry

The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida

The Sum of Small Things, by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida

The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch

The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel

Privilege by Shamus Rahman Khan

The Great Class Shift by Thibault Muzergues

Social Class in the 21st Century by Mike Savage

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

Rough Country: How Texas became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State by Robert Withnow (Multiple books, I just picked the title I liked.)

White Working Class by Joan C. Williams

https://andrewmtanner.medium.com/how-to-save-american-democracy-break-up-the-federal-government-bee9d84ff76b by Andrew Tanner

Sorry I didn’t alphabetize but I wanted to hurry and my old eyes and fingers were worn out. Now you can sell your shelf of “what’s wrong with Trump” books and buy these instead.

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Mary Strachan Scriver
Mary Strachan Scriver

Written by Mary Strachan Scriver

Born in Portland when all was calm just before WWII. Educated formally at NU and U of Chicago Div School. Clergy for ten years. Always happy on high prairie.

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