Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes-the resentful "non-college" crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries-seem on the brink of a civil war. In Africa the Ivory Tower Falls, Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., from the landmark GI Bill through the culture wars of the '60s and '70s, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itself-and how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then take a question we need to ask all over again-what, and who, is college even for?-and pushes it into the twenty-first century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans. The sum total is a stunning work of Journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic division-and charts a path forward for America.