After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics--And How to Fix It

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college--the great political and cultural fault line of American life

This book is simply terrific. --Heather Cox Richardson, publisher of the Letters from an American Substack

Ambitious and engrossing. --New York Times Book Review

A must-read. --Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains

Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes--the resentful "non-college" crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries--seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling