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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.50973
EAN: 9780671792251
ISBN: 0671792253
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: October 01, 1992
Publisher: Touchstone
Sales Rank: 52229
Studio: Touchstone
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Product Description:
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.
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Rating:  - Get it
One of the most important non-fiction books I've read in the last 20 years. Extremely shrewd, perceptive and certainly funny
Rating: - Funniest Book I've Ever Read
Fussell really knows how to use wit and satire to go after the various socioeconomic groups in America. My Mom suggested I give it a look, so when I was right out of college and substitute teaching, I read the book while my students were busy doing their own work. Needless to say my random bursts of laughter confused them...I laughed over and over and over again.
Despite the book being written over twenty years ago, the same descriptions of "proles" and other groups are just as true ... Read More
Rating: - Yes, yes, yes, yesssssssssssss!
Almost as good as sex.Whenever I feel blue, I pull this book into bed with me and laugh until I fall asleep.My daughter (born during the year of the first printing of CLASS...twenty-some years ago) has found many clues to life in this book.I... have a secret... I admit to wearing ankle-length purple polyester dresses with a small amount of Lycra, but no sheen.This style (used in the loosest sense of the word) goes with my x characteristics and looks better on me than that preppy crap as I ... Read More
Rating:  - Gee-wiz ! America is not a classless society ?
I read Paul Fussell's Class in 1983, shortly after its publication. Class
is easy to read and is funny, but in a very biting sort of way.Now, 25
years later, with a political campaign being waged,we see much the same thing for those who are aware of class, or are just too broke to be satisfied with their place in American society.
Note how the politicians like to condemn "elitism" and publically identify themselves with the middle-class and even working-class to appeal to voters. ... Read More
Rating:  - A dated, trite & slightly amusing outline of consumer spending habits by class, c.1983
The bulk of this book is dedicated to consumer spending habits and while much has changed over the last 25 years (original copyright of 1983), there is a considerable amount that has stayed the same. There are some nuggets, but they are few and far between.
It is a light and fluffy distraction easily dispensed with in an afternoon. Those with a serious sociological interest would be far more satisfiedwith the work of Mills.
Just be sure to get it from the library, your bookshelves ... Read More
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