Class: A Guide Through the American Status System - Hardcover

Fussell, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671449915 ISBN 13: 9780671449919

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1983

Synopsis

In Cl 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 cl 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 cles from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Cl is to amuse and infuriate, whether your cl is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift.

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Review

"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.

"Chicago Sun-Times"

Highly amusing....a witty, persnickety, and illuminating book....fussell hits the mark.

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.

"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.

"Chicago Sun-Times" Highly amusing....a witty, persnickety, and illuminating book....fussell hits the mark.

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

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671449915
• ISBN 13: 9780671449919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1