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

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 575 ratings

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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.

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

About the Author

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 0.52 x 8.44 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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575 global ratings
Old, outdated material, don’t waste your money on something like this now irrelevant work
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Old, outdated material, don’t waste your money on something like this now irrelevant work
One star for being such an old book, the author keeps referring to other authors’ works written in 1970s. The pages of this book are grayish, the print is low quality, as well as the graphics/ artistic renderings, and paper used has a kind of rough feel, so it’s not even pleasant to the touch. You’ll see what I mean if you were foolish enough to purchase this book anyway. Also, I wanted it in Kindle form, but for some reason this book only comes in this physical form. In this day and age, books really should be available in digital form, especially books sold on Amazon. Is it really hard to hire someone to scan this into kindle form? Anyway, the book is a little outdated in its references to current culture. It’s like a time machine, written nearly 40 years ago. I guess I could have just googled some Reddit or Quora answers to questions about society and class. Let’s just say at the time this was written there were no dot.com billionaires and the internet was not really a thing yet. Enough said.
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