Shadowy lines that still divide / Janny Scott, David Leonhardt --
Life at the top in America isn't just better, it's longer / Janny Scott --
A marriage of unequals / Tamar Lewin --
Up from the holler : living in two worlds, at home in neither / Tamar Lewin --
On a Christian mission to the top / Laurie Goodstein, David D. Kirkpatrick --
The college dropout boom / David Leonhardt --
No degree, and no way back to the middle / Timothy Egan --
Fifteen years on the bottom rung / Anthony DePalma --
When the Joneses wear jeans / Jennifer Steinhauer --
The five-bedroom, six-figure rootless life / Peter T. Kilborn --
Old Nantucket warily meets the new / Geraldine Fabrikant --
Richest are leaving even the rich far behind / David Cay Johnston --
In fiction, a long history of fixation on the social gap / Charles McGrath --
Angela Whitiker's climb / Isabel Wilkerson --
Appendix. The New York Times poll on class.
