The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart

The award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in...
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Author: Bill Bishop
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart by Bishop, Bill

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart

$20.25

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart

$20.25
Author: Bill Bishop
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.

Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrates how Americans have spent decades sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities--not by region or by state, but by city and neighborhood. With ever-increasing specificity, we choose the communities and media that are compatible with our lifestyles and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live just a few miles away.

In The Big Sort, Bishop explores how this phenomenon came to be, and its dire implications for our country. 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.

Author: Bill Bishop
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/11/2009
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780547237725


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/12/2009 pg. 20

About the Author
Bishop, Bill: -

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.

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