In a landmark book that's intriguing [and] provocative and presents an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox--we idealize marriage and yet we're so bad at it" (The New York Times).
Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn't in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more often and have more live-in partners...