Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion

The Resource Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion
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Class matters : the strange career of an American delusion
Title remainder
the strange career of an American delusion
Statement of responsibility
Steve Fraser
Title variation
Strange career of an American delusion
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Language
eng
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
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
BTCTA
Dewey number
305.50973
Index
index present
LC call number
  • HN90.S6
  • E169.Z8
LC item number
  • F73 2018
  • F73 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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