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Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion

Title
Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion / Steve Fraser.
Author
Fraser, Steve, 1945-
Publication
  • New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xi, 287 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"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 civil rights activism in Mississippi and his false arrest on charges of planning to blow up the Liberty Bell during the anti-war era--to tell a story both urgent and timeless."--Page [2] of cover.
Alternative Title
Class matters
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The enigma of class in America -- East of Eden -- We the people in the city of brotherly love -- Wretched refuse -- There was a young cowboy : homeless on the range -- John Smith visits suburbia -- Free at last? : "I have a dream" and involuntary servitude -- The homeland.
Call Number
JFD 18-1406
ISBN
  • 9780300221503
  • 0300221509
LCCN
2017948003
OCLC
1002129765
Author
Fraser, Steve, 1945- author.
Title
Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion / Steve Fraser.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 18-1406
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