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Money and class in America / Lewis H. Lapham ; with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Thomas Frank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lapham, Lewis H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wealth--United States.
- Wealth.
- Money--United States.
- Money.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : OR Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Extensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as synonymous. Consumerism, greed, and the insatiable desire for more are American obsessions. In the native tradition of Twain, Veblen, and Mencken, the editor of Lapham's Quarterly here examines our fascination with the ubiquitous green goddess. Focusing on the wealthy sybarites of New York City, whom Lewis H. Lapham has been able to observe firsthand in their natural habitat, Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who, in the thirty years since the book was originally written, have become only further removed--both in terms of wealth and social awareness--from everyone else.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-944869-90-5
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