#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.Dwight Garner,The New York Times

The Pulitzer Prizewinning, bestselling author ofThe Warmth of Other Sunsexamines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisionsnow with a new Afterword by the author.