Class is a provocative, entertaining, and nasty book it is bound to annoy many Americans who will find themselves caricatured in its pages. A social and intellectual historian, Fussell appears to be one of those who habitually view others as types before seeing them as individuals. Nevertheless, Paul Fussell, who glares like a pugnacious bulldog from the back jacket of his Class: A Guide through the American Status System, insists that equality is a fable and that social class is a fact of American life indeed, he distinguishes as many as nine different socioeconomic strata. Rank and status are antithetical to the very idea upon which this nation was founded: that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Social class is a touchy topic anywhere in America it is more ticklish, for the United States prides itself on being a classless society. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System.
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