Class - a guide through the American Status System

Fussell, Paul

ISBN 10: 0671449915 / ISBN 13: 9780671449919

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1983

About this Item

Inscribed by author to Miriam & Wilfrid Sheed on front endpaper. Colorful DJ is not price-clipped, light soil & rubbing from age & handling, protected in mylar. Boards are well-bound, light foxing along textblock edges, pages clean & sharp throughout.

Seller Inventory # WS25322

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Class - a guide through the American Status System
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671449915
• ISBN 13: 9780671449919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: de Avillez, Martim
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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.