The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart - Couverture souple

Bishop, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547237723 ISBN 13 : 9780547237725

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by state, but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live a few miles away. How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this ground-breaking work.

In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level. He begins with stories about how we live today and then draws on history, economics and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

BILL BISHOP was a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman when he began research on city growth and political polarization with the sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing. Bishop has worked as a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, and, with his wife, owned and operated the Bastrop County Times, a weekly newspaper in Smithville, Texas. He lives in Austin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0547237723
• ISBN 13: 9780547237725
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384
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