In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

America as we know it—wealthy, powerful, assertive—is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, an America unable to exert its will, an America happy to be one power among many, an America in decline so that other nations might rise—all in the name of global fairness. To Obama, the hated “one percent” isn’t just wealthy Americas; it is America itself. ...(展开全部)

迪内希•德•索萨Dinesh D’Souza印裔美国人，纽约国王学院(King's College in New York City) 院长。高中时从印度以交换学生的身份来到美国，后来就读于常春藤大学达特茅斯，在大学期前参与编写学生保守杂志，毕业后不久，迪内希以移民 的身份加入里根政府，做政策研究员，之后，迪内希就职于斯坦福大学胡佛研究所，并出版数本纽约时报畅销书，其中包括《种族歧视的终结》、《里根》、《美国的伟大》、《基督教的伟大》、《来生》、《给年轻保守派的书信》。2010年，迪内希受邀担任纽约国王学院的院长。 过去多年来，迪内希的写作和辩论主要在政治理念和政策方面，在2008年大选期间，保守派的迪内希并没有去做反自由派奥巴马的先锋，他的主要精力集中在与无神论们的辩论之中。奥巴马当选上任后，推出了一系列的国内政策和外交政策，对内大搞财富再分配、三...(展开全部)

Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. B...(展开全部)

The authors describe how 'inequality scripts' shape the hiring and promotion practices of organizations in ways that provide differential opportunities to people based on class, gender, and racial memberships. The authors also illustrate how privileged class members benefit from organizationally-based and perpetuated forms of inequality. The second edition retains its provocati...(展开全部)

The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the author's distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised and new, recent examples of topics, issues, and event...(展开全部)