{"product_id":"class-a-guide-through-the-american-status-system-paperback","title":"Class: A Guide Through the American Status System - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Fussell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing.Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own place in society and see how the other half lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Fussell, \u003c\/b\u003e critic, essayist, and cultural commentator, has recently won the H. L. Mencken Award of the Free Press Association. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Great War and Modem Memory, \u003c\/i\u003e which in 1976 won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eAbroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars; Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War;\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBAD or, The Dumbing of America.\u003c\/i\u003e His essays have been collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches English at the University of Pennsylvani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761722720544,"sku":"9780671792251","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0442856a3ff6a3aa594d43e0ba0cc8a2.webp?v=1780211381","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/class-a-guide-through-the-american-status-system-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}