<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of <i>The Warmth of Other Suns</i> examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions--now with a new Afterword by the author. <p/>#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Time<br></i>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, </i> NPR, <i>Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, </i> The New York Public Library, <i>Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews</i></b> <p/><b>Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - National Book Award Longlist - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist - PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist - PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist - Kirkus Prize Finalist</b> <p/><i>"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which