Class : style and status in the USA

FUSSELL, Paul (until his retirement, Donald T. Regan Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania); illustrations by AVILLEZ, Martin de.[Hilarious mistake! Paul Fussell was this author's real name. See Wikipedia. Donald T. Regan was the name of Fussell's professorship at Penn.] "Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality ... guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system ... Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectural proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom"--Back cover. I. A Touchy Subject. II. An Anatomy of the Classes. III. Appearance Counts. IV. About the House. V. Consumption, Recreation, Bibelots. VI. The Life of the Mind. VII. “Speak, That I May See Thee”. VIII. Climbing and Sinking, and Prole Drift. IX. The X Way Out. Appendix: Exercises, and the Mail Bag. FUSSELL, Paul (pseudonym of REGAN, Donald T., Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania); illustrations by AVILLEZ, Martin de.