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Snobbery : the American version /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2002]
Subjects:
Social status > United States.
Snobs and snobbishness > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. It takes one to know one
  • 2. What is a snob
  • 3. How snobbery works
  • 4. The Democratic snob
  • 5. Snob-jobbery
  • 6. O WASP, where is they sting-a-ling
  • 7. Class (all but) dismissed
  • 8. Such good taste
  • 9. In the snob-free zone
  • 10. The high, fine nuttiness of status
  • 11. to you, I give my heart, Invidia
  • 12. A son at Tufts, a daughter at Taffeta
  • 13. Dear old Yarvton
  • 14. Unclubbable
  • 15. Intellectual snobbery, or the (million or so) happy few
  • 16. The snob in politics
  • 17. Fags and yids
  • 18. The same new thing
  • 19. Names away
  • 20. The celebrity iceberg
  • 21. Anglo-, Franco-, and other odd philias
  • 22. Setting the snob's table
  • 23. The art of with-it-ry
  • 24. A grave but localized disease.