Class
A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell and Martim de Avillez
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This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
October 1, 1992, Touchstone
Paperback
in English
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Class
September 12, 1984, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
1983, Summit Books
in English
- 1st ed.
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
October 1983, Summit Books
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed. edition
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"Although most Americans sense that they live within an extremely complicated system of social classes and suspect that much of what is thought and done here is prompted by considerations of status, the subject has remained murky."
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"Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality ... guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system ... 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 intellectural proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom"--Back cover.
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