Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.

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Published Mar 10, 2015

400 pages

Average rating: 8

3 RATINGS

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Lehrer Mutter
May 17, 2025
5/10 stars
I love information. However, the information shared in this book was shared between "true" stories of multiple children and families who were supposed to either exemplify hardship and disadvantages or be statistical anomalies. The stories and the quotes were just grating though. I felt like the book screamed, "An old (albeit intelligent) white man wrote this." I had to stop reading about 75% of the way through because it just hadn't improved and was starting to irk me.

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