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02979aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 44825A924DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180502010046 008 170828t20182018ctu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2017948003 020 $a 0300221509 020 $a 9780300221503 035 $a (OCoLC)1002129765 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d ERASA $d VKC $d OCLCO $d OQX $d CPL $d IGA $d ZLM $d QQ3 $d JQW $d HTM $d TXMAL $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HN90 S6 F73x 2018 082 04 $a 970.980 100 1 $a Fraser, Steve, $d 1945- $e author. 245 10 $a Class matters : $b the strange career of an American delusion / $c Steve Fraser. 246 30 $a Class matters 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 287 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 00 $t The homeland. $t East of Eden -- $t We the people in the city of brotherly love -- $t Wretched refuse -- $t There was a young cowboy : homeless on the range -- $t John Smith visits suburbia -- $t Free at last? : "I have a dream" and involuntary servitude -- $t The homeland. 520 $a "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."--Page [2] of cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index. 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social conflict $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social psychology $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Elite (Social sciences) $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Protest movements $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Income distribution $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945-1953. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945-1989. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180502012251.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=44825A924DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search