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Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion
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Overview
A uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's \"American carnage,\" class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating how class matters precisely because Americans work so hard to pretend it doesn't. He examines six signposts of American history-the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown; the ratification of the Constitution; the Statue of Liberty; the cowboy; the \"kitchen debate\" between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev; and Martin Luther King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech-to explore just how pervasively class has shaped our national conversation. With a historian's intellectual command and a riveting narrative voice, Fraser interweaves these examples with his own past-including his false arrest on charges of planning to blow up the Liberty Bell during the Civil Rights era-to tell a story both urgent and timeless.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Subject
Social classes United States History.
/ Social conflict United States History.
/ Social psychology United States History.
/ Elite (Social sciences) United States History.
/ Protest movements United States History.
/ Income distribution United States History.
/ Power (Social sciences) United States History.
/ United States Politics and government 1945-1953.
ISBN
9780300221503, 0300221509, 9780300244359, 0300244355
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| HN90.S6 F73 2018 | 1 | BOOK | AUTOSTORE |
