Synopsis
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
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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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Avillez, Martim De (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0880295805I4N00