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From the author of the international best seller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a bracing and original look at the tension between our democratic egalitarian political ideals and our recalcitrant biology. Human beings are tribal. We possess a fundamental desire to belong to groups, teams, clubs, a tribe - something larger than ourselves. Political Tribes explores the phenomenon of human groupishness: how identities are shaped and formed by belonging to a group.

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species.

"Ils subissent un éloignement géographique, social, politique et culturel. Ils sont la majorité. Ils sont à l'origine de toutes les contestations actuelles, qui ne ressemblent à aucun des mouvements sociaux des siècles passés. Ils sont les dépossédés." Dans ce nouvel essai, Christophe Guilluy montre comment les classes populaires répondent magistralement à leur disparition programmée, en imposant une alternative à un modèle condamné.