| Description |
xii, 274 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. It takes one to know one -- 2. What is a snob -- 3. How snobbery works -- 4. The Democratic snob -- 5. Snob-jobbery -- 6. O WASP, where is they sting-a-ling -- 7. Class (all but) dismissed -- 8. Such good taste -- 9. In the snob-free zone -- 10. The high, fine nuttiness of status -- 11. to you, I give my heart, Invidia -- 12. A son at Tufts, a daughter at Taffeta -- 13. Dear old Yarvton -- 14. Unclubbable -- 15. Intellectual snobbery, or the (million or so) happy few -- 16. The snob in politics -- 17. Fags and yids -- 18. The same new thing -- 19. Names away -- 20. The celebrity iceberg -- 21. Anglo-, Franco-, and other odd philias -- 22. Setting the snob's table -- 23. The art of with-it-ry -- 24. A grave but localized disease. |
| Subject |
Social status -- United States.
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Social status. |
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United States. |
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Snobs and snobbishness -- United States.
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Snobs and snobbishness. |
| ISBN |
0395944171 |
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