From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. "A status report on the American Dream that] gets its power from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives."-- Time " William] Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems...