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Alison Lurie "The New York Times Book Review" A shrewd and entertaining commentary on American mores today. Frighteningly acute.
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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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Wry, insightful and prescient, though self-indulgent.,
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This review is from: Class: A Guide through the American Status System (Paperback)
As a newly successful young professional, I thrilled in this book's ride up and down our American class ladder. Outrageously funny, you'll need a thick skin not to take umbrage at times. I am still ashamed to learn that expensive technical wrist-watches imply horrible middle class status. Probably most Americans find offensive this book's teaching that one's class is inherited at birth, with little or no recourse to change it (an exception being marriage up or down). In the final chapter of the book, "The X Way Out", Fussell argues there is a class of Americans who have risen above class. However, I think he was self-indulgently describing middle-class, well-educated people like himself, who have a strong sense of irony and a sociologists intellectual rationalization of the class system. Certainly the members of his "X" group did not graduate from the ivy leagues, or drop-out of the urban high-schools. Though written in the early 1980's, Fussell's observations are almost all still pertinent in 1999. However, his characterization of corporations as evil overlords seems quaint and archaic in this era of 5% unemployment. In summary, if you ever wondered about an American class system, this book is for you.
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There cannot be too much of THIS good thing!,
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This review is from: Class: A Guide through the American Status System (Paperback)
I've never read anything even remotely as entertaining as "Class". Being a foreigner, I especially appreciated this unanticipated look at Americans. Somebody, please, get the author to write a sequel!
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An American Classic,
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This review is from: Class: A Guide through the American Status System (Paperback)
Anyone who wants to take up American citizenship should be made to read this book before they can take the oath, they should know what they are signing up for. Witty, true, well written "Class" has earned a perpetual place on my bookshelf.
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