Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on Our Civil Religion

Lapham, Lewis H.

ISBN 10: 1555841090 / ISBN 13: 9781555841096

Published by Grove Pr, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on Our Civil Religion
• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555841090
• ISBN 13: 9781555841096
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 18 ounces

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Synopsis

Book by Lapham, Lewis H.

Reviews

Despite strong opening hints that this is going to be a genuinely significant examination of the role that money plays in the class structure of America, it soon becomes apparent that Lapham has written not so much a study with a well-developed thesis as a series of separate chapters loosely tied to the theme that Americans are obsessed by the desire to make money and that they never feel they have enough. The book is a curious melange of personal experiences, quotations, anecdotes, footnotes, and some rather dubious assertions. As a result the narrative is meandering and disconnected. General readers may find themselves tantalized at times.A. J. Anderson, G.S.L.I.S., Simmons Coll., Boston
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