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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System Paperback – Illustrated, October 1, 1992

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Chicago Sun-Times Highly amusing....a witty, persnickety, and illuminating book....fussell hits the mark.

The Washington Post Move over, William Buckley. Stand back, Gore Vidal. And run for cover, Uncle Sam: Paul Fussell, the nation's newest world-class curmudgeon, is taking aim at The American Experiment.

Wilfrid Sheed
The Atlantic A fine prickly pear of a book....Anyone who reads it will automatically move up a class.

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The New York Times Book Review A shrewd and entertaining commentary on American mores today. Frighteningly acute.

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Paul Fussell, critic, essayist, and cultural commentator, has recently won the H. L. Mencken Award of the Free Press Association. Among his books are The Great War and Modem Memory, which in 1976 won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award; Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars; Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War; and, most recently, BAD or, The Dumbing of America. His essays have been collected in The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations and Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0671792253
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Touchstone; Reissue edition (October 1, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780671792251
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671792251
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.44 inches
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Still Classy After All These Years
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Still Classy After All These Years
This insightful and hilarious book may be almost forty years old, but the truths revealed here still bring anguish to a great number of modern-day class-searchers. It still demonstrates the hard and harrowing lesson of class with flat-out precision. Class has always existed in America, still does, and always will – no matter how far right or left the country moves. That's why this book is still in print.Fussell finds the nine classes to consist of Top out-of-sight, Upper, Upper Middle, Middle, High prole, Mid-prole, Low-prole, Destitute, and Bottom out-of-sight. Though he disparages all of them, he enjoys poking fun at the middles the most.The common misconception of merely equating money with class has become much more pervasive in the decades that have passed since this book was first published. The modern media barrage showcasing the 50,000-square foot homes of basketball stars or the private jet flights ferrying rappers and country stars across town continues to reinforce the unlikely correlation between class and money. If you still think a degree from Miami University makes you college-educated, that an upper-class man would certainly wear a diamond-encrusted Rolex, or that corpulence has absolutely nothing to do with one's social class, you should read this book.The reader will be surprised to learn that there are actually nine classes (technically ten), and each and every individual can be placed with high precision into their corresponding slot, based on their appearance, living quarters, place of origin, style of consumption, manner of speaking, and a whole lot more. There's even a concise questionnaire at the end to rate your class based on the content of your living room. Hence, a tabletop obelisk of marble or glass (the significance is explained clearly in the book) adds nine points to your score - boosting your class. But a motorcycle stored in the living room (!) subtracts ten points. You will soon understand that Michael Jackson's obsession with spending millions to collect grotesque and glittery objet's d' art on Las Vegas shopping sprees only helps to clarify what a prole he actually was.This is a wonderful reference work you will come back to again and again, as you (futilely) try to adjust your own position in life. You will be able to quickly evaluate class by knowing only one or two simple facts. Thus, you can instantly peg the class of the former senator Ted Kennedy as Top Out Of Sight given the knowledge that he selected an Oldsmobile Delta 88 to drive his alleged squeeze off the bridge at Chappaquiddick. Even though Oldsmobile ceased production in 2004, you can extrapolate this information to modern times by the simple analogy that Kennedy would not be caught dead today in a Tesla Model S or Cadillac Escalade.Be forewarned. The truth may hurt - a lot. Many reviewers, having read the book, still don't (or won't) get it. They complain that the book is outdated, hence the principles outlined no longer apply. They insist that their family must indeed be upper class - after all, they made millions running a string of auto detailing businesses in Indianapolis. Yet, they still do not feel welcome on Nantucket. The louder they yell, the more it proves that hardly anything has changed regarding class in America over the last forty years.
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