Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

ISBN: 9780671792251
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The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.

Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own place in society and see how the other half lives.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Fussell, Paul
  • ISBN: 9780671792251
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.30 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 1992

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  • Entertaining, pointed, and appropriatley elitist.

    Kevin G. - 5 years 8 months ago

    Class is a curmudgeonly exploration of the unspoken but obvious class system in the United States, and Paul Fussell rarely misses an opportunity to describe the most laughable traits of each class; Midwestern and Southern middle-class Americans are easy targets. The author only slightly disappoints when he describes his own class of academics and artists as being outside of the class system, but he more than makes up for it through his skillful satirization and often very-funny mockery of U.S. culture. Thoughtful, accessible, pointedly accurate, and perfectly barbed.

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