LEADER 03152nam 22005535 450 001 9910814159803321 005 20230126222621.0 010 $a0-300-23530-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300235302 035 $a(CKB)4340000000248707 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5313344 035 $a(DE-B1597)536084 035 $a(OCoLC)1026492266 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300235302 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000248707 100 $a20191022d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aClass Matters $eThe Strange Career of an American Delusion /$fSteve Fraser 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-22150-9 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. The Enigma of Class in America -- $t1. East of Eden -- $t2. We the People in the City of Brotherly Love -- $t3. Wretched Refuse -- $t4. There Was a Young Cowboy Homeless on the Range -- $t5. John Smith Visits Suburbia -- $t6. Free at Last? "I Have a Dream" and Involuntary Servitude -- $tConclusion. The Homeland -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aA 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. 606 $aSocial classes$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial conflict$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial psychology$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1953 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aNonfiction. 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial conflict$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial psychology$xHistory. 676 $a973.91 700 $aFraser$b Steve, $0525193 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814159803321 996 $aClass Matters$94033239 997 $aUNINA