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Money and Class in America

By Lewis Lapham
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Money and Class in America offers a caustic and often hilarious exploration of the obsession with wealth and consumerism in the United States. Drawing on the traditions of Twain, Veblen, and Mencken, Lewis Lapham focuses on the rich elite of New York City, revealing how they have become increasingly distant in wealth and social awareness over thirty years. This extensively revised edition includes a new foreword by Thomas Frank, adding fresh insight into American class and culture.
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This incisive and humorous critique is ideal for readers interested in social commentary, satire, and American culture, especially those who appreciate sharp, elegant essays on class and wealth.

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"Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on Our Civil Religion was first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, in 1988"--Title pages verso.

  • Author interviews on broadcast media and in print, Harper's magazine coverage especially likely
  • Likely serialization of Tom Frank's introduction in the Guardian
  • Extensive review coverage anticipated
  • Promotion, including advertising in and subscriber mailing through Lapham's Quarterly
  • bound galleys available

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    Extensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank

    In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as synonymous. Consumerism, greed, and the insatiable desire for more are American obsessions. In the native tradition of Twain, Veblen, and Mencken, the editor of Lapham's Quarterly here examines our fascination with the ubiquitous green goddess.

    Focusing on the wealthy sybarites of New York City, whom Lewis H. Lapham has been able to observe firsthand in their natural habitat, Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who, in the thirty years since the book was originally written, have become only further removedβ€”both in terms of wealth and social awarenessβ€”from everyone else.

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    Praise for Money and Class in America: Thomas Frank commends Lapham's elegant prose that makes the book a pleasure to read. Kurt Vonnegut regards Lapham as "our greatest satirist." George Plimpton hails him as "the most provocative and engaging essayist in the country." Reviews highlight the book as a sardonic, moralistic, and witty reflection on American culture and political life, with the New York Times Book Review noting Lapham's unsparing and witty ruminations.

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    INFORMATION

    ISBN: 9781944869892

    Publisher: OR Books

    Format: Paperback / softback

    Date Published: 18 October 2018

    Country: United States

    Imprint: OR Books

    Illustration: Illustrations

    Contributors:

    • Introduction by Thomas Frank

    Audience: General / adult

    DIMENSIONS

    Width: 139.0mm

    Height: 203.0mm

    Weight: 250g

    Pages: 352

    Collections

    American & Canadian History Education & Reference Fiction Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Gifts for adults History & Archaeology History & Military Humour Lewis Lapham Politics & Current Affairs

    About the Author

    LEWIS H. LAPHAM is the founding Editor of Lapham's Quarterly and the editor emeritus of Harper's. His columns received the National Magazine Award in 1995 for exhibiting "an exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity," and, in 2002, the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. He was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2007. His other books include Fortune's Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of WarThe Agony of Mammon, Gag Rule, Pretensions to Empire, and The Age of Folly.

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