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“Gamers,” Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart
“Gamers,” Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart

“Gamers,” Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart

The United States since 1965

HISTORY

432 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, Mobipocket

Trade Paper, $24.95 (CA $33.95) (US $24.95)

Publication Date: December 2020

ISBN 9781634243377

Rights: WOR

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Overview

Gamers, Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart is the first book to pull together the central features of the American society, character, and history of the global era and its immediate aftermath into a single, powerful, comprehensive, and coherent picture. Seamlessly interdisciplinary, it looks at all facets of recent American society and history as reflecting first the global liberal paradigm that reigned from 1965 until 2016, and then the incipient paradigms that have competed during the years of crisis since.It is the first book to pull together the central features of American society, character, and history since 1965 into a single comprehensive and coherent picture that dissents from key aspects of the long-dominant paradigm. Gamers, Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart describes and extensively analyzes the gamers, the fascinating new upper class that has risen to dominance in this country as in most others during the last half century. It also analyzes the character and circumstances of the middle class, working class, and underclass, laying bare the profound, many-sided conflict between the gamers and the middle and working classes. It also examines the

Reviews

"The learning and intelligence evident throughout this book are no less than staggering." —Frank Bergon "This book…is a one-of-a-kind, paradigm-breaking and -setting book that deserves wide notice and close attention." —David Rubinstein

Author Biography

Alfred Claassen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has been published in professional journals.

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