Preface to the Paperback ix
Preface xv
Introduction Death in the Afternoon 1
Part I Past As Prologue 17
1. The Calm before the Storm 19
2. Things Come Apart 28
3. Deaths of Despair 37
Part II The Anatomy Of The Battlefield 47
4. The Lives and Deaths of the More (and Less) Educated 49
5. Black and White Deaths 62
6. The Health of the Living 71
7. The Misery and Mystery of Pain 83
8. Suicide, Drugs, and Alcohol 94
9. Opioids 109
Part III What's The Economy Got To Do With It? 131
10. False Trails: Poverty, Income, and the Great Recession 133
11. Growing Apart at Work 148
12. Widening Gaps at Home 167
Part IV Why Is Capitalism Failing So Many? 185
13. How American Healthcare Is Undermining Lives 191
14. Capitalism, Immigrants, Robots, and China 212
15. Firms, Consumers, and Workers 226
16. What to Do? 245
Acknowledgments 263
Notes 265
Index 293