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Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion / Steve Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraser, Steve, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--United States--History.
- Social classes.
- Power (Social sciences).
- History.
- Income distribution.
- Protest movements.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Social psychology.
- Social conflict.
- United States.
- 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--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 287 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Class matters
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300221503
- 0300221509
- OCLC:
- 1002129765
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