Falling from Grace [Hardcover]

Katherine S. Newman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 27, 1988 | ISBN-10: 0029231213 | ISBN-13: 978-0029231210

An anthropologist examines how Americans' national optimism makes it difficult for them to confront the new realities of living less prosperous lives than previous generations. First time in paperback.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"Katherine Newman's splendid book shows us our culture when its promises fail."--Robert M. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley

"An insightful, moving and persuasive account of a very troubling undercurrent in America."--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard


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From the Publisher

"Katherine Newman's splendid book shows us our culture when its promises fail."--Robert M. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley

"An insightful, moving and persuasive account of a very troubling undercurrent in America."--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Free Press (June 27, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0029231213
• ISBN-13: 978-0029231210
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,637,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine Newman is professor of sociology and James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Author of ten books on middle-class economic instability, urban poverty, and the sociology of inequality, Newman has taught at the University of California-Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.