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The Family books
Coming Apart Charles Murray's 2012 study of a growing divide between a new upper class and a new lower class in industry, marriage and community life. Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance's 2016 memoir of growing up in a struggling Ohio and Kentucky Appalachian family, and of the culture of the white working class. Life at the Bottom Theodore Dalrymple's 2001 essays, drawn from his work as a prison and hospital doctor, on how elite ideas created a British underclass. The Benedict Option Rod Dreher's 2017 call for Christians to build tight-knit communities, schools and practices that preserve the faith against secular culture. The Quest for Community Robert Nisbet's 1953 study of how the modern state grows as families, churches and local groups weaken, leaving individuals isolated. What Is Marriage? Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George's 2012 philosophical case for marriage as a union of a man and a woman.