TY - BOOK AU - Bunch,William TI - After the ivory tower falls: how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics-- and how to fix it SN - 0063076993 AV - LC191.94 .B863 2022 U1 - 378.73 PY - 2022///] CY - New York, NY PB - William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Democracy and education KW - United States KW - Education, Higher KW - Aims and objectives KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Education N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: College like my grandma used to make -- Life during wartime in Knox County, Ohio -- When college in America almost became a public good -- Why the Kent State massacre raised your tuition -- Yuppies, dittoheads, and a "big sort" : college and the culture wars -- The "whole college thing" awkwardly enters the 2020s -- Gap year. The Quad: The four people you meet in today's America -- A college debt crisis, Occupy Wall Street, and the rise of a new new left -- From resentment of college to America's rejection of knowledge -- The soul of a new Truman Commission -- A bloodles war to save America's youth N2 - In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America ER -