03152nam 22005535 450 991081415980332120230126222621.00-300-23530-510.12987/9780300235302(CKB)4340000000248707(MiAaPQ)EBC5313344(DE-B1597)536084(OCoLC)1026492266(DE-B1597)9780300235302(EXLCZ)99434000000024870720191022d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierClass Matters The Strange Career of an American Delusion /Steve FraserNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]©20181 online resource (300 pages) illustrationsIncludes index.0-300-22150-9 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Enigma of Class in America -- 1. East of Eden -- 2. We the People in the City of Brotherly Love -- 3. Wretched Refuse -- 4. There Was a Young Cowboy Homeless on the Range -- 5. John Smith Visits Suburbia -- 6. Free at Last? "I Have a Dream" and Involuntary Servitude -- Conclusion. The Homeland -- Notes -- IndexA uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life 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 false arrest on charges of planning to blow up the Liberty Bell during the Civil Rights era-to tell a story both urgent and timeless.Social classesUnited StatesHistorySocial conflictUnited StatesHistorySocial psychologyUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesSocial conditionsUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1953United StatesPolitics and government1945-1989United StatesfastNonfiction.History.fastSocial classesHistory.Social conflictHistory.Social psychologyHistory.973.91Fraser Steve, 525193DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910814159803321Class Matters4033239UNINA