Table of Contents
Prologue: November 21, 1963 1 (22)
Part I The Formation of a New Upper Class
1 Our Kind of People 23 (23)
2 The Foundations of the New Upper Class 46 (23)
3 A New Kind of Segregation 69 (31)
4 How Thick Is Your Bubble? 100(16)
5 The Bright Side of the New Upper Class 116(11)
Part II The Formation of a New Lower Class
6 The Founding Virtues 127(17)
7 Belmont and Fishtown 144(5)
8 Marriage 149(19)
9 Industriousness 168(21)
10 Honesty 189(11)
11 Religiosity 200(9)
12 The Real Fishtown 209(17)
13 The Size of the New Lower Class 226(10)
Part III Why It Matters
14 The Selective Collapse of American 236(17)
Community
15 The Founding Virtues and the Stuff of 253(16)
Life
16 One Nation, Divisible 269(9)
17 Alternative Futures 278(29)
Acknowledgments 307(3)
Appendix A Data Sources and Presentation 310(5)
Appendix B Supplemental Material for the 315(6)
Segregation Chapter
Appendix C Supplemental Material for the 321(16)
Chapter on Belmont and Fishtown
Appendix D Supplemental Material for the 337(5)
Marriage Chapter
Appendix E Supplemental Material for the 342(11)
Honesty Chapter
Appendix F Supplemental Material for the 353(3)
American Community Chapter
Appendix G Supplemental Material for the 356(2)
Chapter About the Founding Virtues and the
Stuff of Life
Notes 358(31)
Bibliography 389(10)
Index 399
