Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. -. 1. Hard Cover. 0395944171 . Quarter bound in black cloth over tan boards, gilt lettering on spine. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket lightly sunned, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xii, 274 pp .

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Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it. With ample humor and insight, Epstein uncovers the new outlets upon which the old snobbery has fastened: food and wine, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, health, being with-it, name-dropping, and much else, including the roles of Jews and homosexuals in the development of snobbery. He also raises the question of whether snobbery might, alas, be a part of human nature. Snobbery: The American Versionis the first book in English devoted exclusively to the subject since Thackeray's THE BOOK OF SNOBS.

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26349
Title: Snobbery: The American Version
Author: Epstein, Joseph
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: -. 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0395944171
ISBN 13: 9780395944172
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: 0395944171, Entertainment, Social Status

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