Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

Paul Fussell

ISBN 10: 0671449915 / ISBN 13: 9780671449919

Published by Summit Books, New York, 1983

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Inside front flap is clipped. Selected pages may contain some highlights. Some discoloration to pages. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book itself. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers along with light creases and/or wrinkles at some spots. THIS IS A HEAVY ITEM. ALL ORDERS MIGHT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES. Seller Inventory # 117303

Bibliographic Details

Title: Class: A Guide Through the American Status ...

Publisher: Summit Books, New York

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Martin de Avillez

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

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.