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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (Hardcover)

by Paul Fussell (Author) "Although most Americans sense that they live within an extremely complicated system of social classes and suspect that much of what is thought and done..." (more)
Key Phrases: prole drift, low proles, high proles, New York, United States, Wright Mills (more...)
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Alison Lurie The New York Times Book Review A shrewd and entertaining commentary on American mores today. Frighteningly acute. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 202 pages
  • Publisher: Summit Books; 1st ed. edition (October 1983)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671449915
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671449919
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (121 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #112,523 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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