Class Matters

Name: Class Matters
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ISBN: 9780805080551

ISBN-10: 0805080554

ISBN-13: 9780805080551

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: The New York Times, Bill Keller, The New

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The acclaimed "New York Times" series on social class in America--and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary aristocracy or landed gentry, and even the poorest among us feel that they can become rich through education, hard work, or sheer gumption. And yet social class remains a powerful force in American life. In "Class Matters," a team of" New York Times" reporters explores the ways in which class--defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation--influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity. We meet individuals in…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 9/2/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.19" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction




Shadowy Lines That Still Divide




Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer




A Marriage of Unequals




Up from the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither




On a Christian Mission to the Top




The College Dropout Boom




No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle




Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung




When the Joneses Wear Jeans




The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life




Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New




Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind




In Fiction, a Long History of Fixation on the Social Gap




Angela Whitiker's Climb



Encounters with Class


My Nanny Was a Dreadful Snob



Downwardly Mobile in Birmingham



From the Bronx to Cornell



At the Top of the Bottom in the Segregated South



We Were Poor, but I Didn't Know It




The New York Times Poll on Class


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