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The best of the best : becoming elite at an American boarding school / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.
LIBRA LC4941 .G39 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaztambide-Fernandez, Rubén A., 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boarding schools--United States--Case studies.
- Boarding schools.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Education--United States--Case studies.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Elite (Social sciences)--Education.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Totally elite
- Getting in
- Being smart, working hard
- Reserved seating
- Bonding rituals
- Unequal distinctions
- Envisioning an elite future
- Appendix: Researching identification at an elite boarding school.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674035683
- 0674035682
- OCLC:
- 316037936
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