Steve Fraser (Author)
Yale University Press
Physical Details: 287
Language: English
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. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Lisa M. Fine (Autumn 2021) Review of "Class Matters: The strange career of an American delusion". Business History Review (pp. 606-608).
Similar Citations
Book
Unger, Nancy C.;
(2012)
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History
(/isis/citation/CBB001320951/)
Chapter
Downey, Greg;
(2003)
The place of labor in the history of information technology revolutions
(/isis/citation/CBB001180034/)
Book
Blok, Aad;
Downey, Greg;
(2003)
Uncovering labor in information revolutions, 1750--2000
(/isis/citation/CBB001180030/)
Book
Meacham, Sarah Hand;
(2009)
Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake
(/isis/citation/CBB001020416/)
Article
James L. Huston;
(2021)
Northern US Agriculture, the Distribution of Income, and the Economic Growth of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB899515850/)
Article
Robert C. Allen;
(2019)
Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: Lessons from England's social tables, 1688–1867
(/isis/citation/CBB418072614/)
Article
Miller, Jonson;
(2013)
Pathways and Purposes of the “French Tradition” of Engineering in Antebellum America: The Case of the Virginia Military Institute
(/isis/citation/CBB001320499/)
Book
Wray, Matt;
(2006)
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
(/isis/citation/CBB001021028/)
Book
Chris Miller;
(2019)
Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
(/isis/citation/CBB072110552/)
Book
Kennedy, V. Lynn;
(2010)
Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Social Networks in the Old South
(/isis/citation/CBB001200632/)
Article
Dominik Hünniger;
(2021)
Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680–1810
(/isis/citation/CBB509322382/)
Book
Boomgaard, Peter;
(2001)
Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950
(/isis/citation/CBB000101004/)
Book
Kittler, Friedrich;
Enns, Anthony;
(2010)
Optical media: Berlin lectures 1999
(/isis/citation/CBB001180070/)
Book
Pursell, Carroll W.;
(2001)
American technology
(/isis/citation/CBB001180188/)
Book
Pursell, Carroll W.;
(2007)
The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology
(/isis/citation/CBB000775212/)
Book
Chandler, Alfred D.;
Cortada, James W.;
(2000)
A nation transformed by information: How information has shaped the United States from Colonial times to the present
(/isis/citation/CBB001180861/)
Chapter
Oldenziel, Ruth;
(2007)
Technologie als Merkmal amerikanisch-bürgerlicher Männlichkeit, 1830--1978 (Technology as a feature of American bourgeois masculinity, 1830--1978).
(/isis/citation/CBB001181702/)
Book
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee;
(2009)
American Consumer Society, 1865--2005: From Hearth to HDTV
(/isis/citation/CBB001201132/)
Chapter
Lewis, Earl;
(2000)
Constructing African Americans as Minorities
(/isis/citation/CBB000102245/)
Book
Sacco, Lynn;
(2010)
Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History
(/isis/citation/CBB001020412/)
Be the first to comment!