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English
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In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like--on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle...
4) The East End
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Corey Halpern, a local high schooler with a troubled home life, is desperate to leave the Hamptons and start anew somewhere else. His last summer before college, he settles for the escapism he finds in sneaking into neighboring mansions. One night just before Memorial Day weekend, he breaks in to the wrong home at the wrong time: the Sheffield estate, where he and his mother, Gina, work. Under the cover of darkness, Leo Sheffield - a billionaire...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling author of Bowling Alone offers a groundbreaking examination of the American Dream in crisis: how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--
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Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Language
English
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In this book, Nancy Isenberg reveals that the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Language
English
Description
An uptight female magazine editor makes a bet with her best friend that she can make over a scruffy con man to become her magazine's 'Bachelor of the Year'. A shave and a haircut later, he's revealed as a handsome, charming rogue. She teaches him manners and etiquette, while he teaches her to live in the moment. Sparks fly and love conquers the class divide.
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass.
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Language
English
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
12) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Downton Abbey meets Gangs of New York... a gem of a novel to be inhaled in one breath about a devoted maid whose secretive world is about to be ripped apart at the seams-a lush and evocative debut set in 19th century New York that's perfect for fans of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith and Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin.
By day, Mary Ballard is dutiful lady's maid to Charlotte Walden, a wealthy and accomplished belle of New York City high society. But Charlotte...
14) Stella Dallas
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Edition
Third edition.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the authors' distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised with new, recent examples from today's news, social issues, and global developments. The book demonstrates...
16) The resisters
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus," whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism. While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race and gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education and income. Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Language
English
Description
"It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal--that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding--reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social...
19) The rise of the creative class: and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Description
The Rise of the Creative Class" gives a provocative new way to think about why people live as they do today--and where they might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Florida traces the growing role of creativity in the economy.
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