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Snobbery [electronic resource] : the American version / Joseph Epstein.

by Epstein, Joseph, 1937-

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2002.

Social status -- United States.

Snobs and snobbishness -- United States.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=595CB552-64EB-443C-B0DF-1F240EAF1C29 This title is available online; click here to access

0618544429 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

9780618544424 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

xii, 274 p. ; 25 cm.

It takes one to know one -- What is a snob? -- How snobbery works -- The democratic snob -- Snob-jobbery -- O WASP, where is they sting-a-ling -- Class (all but) dismissed -- Such good taste -- In the snob-free zone -- The high, fine nuttiness of status -- To you, I give my heart, Invidia -- A son at Tufts, a daughter at taffeta -- Dear old Yarvton -- Unclubbable -- Intellectual snobbery, or the (million or so) happy few -- The snob in politics -- Fags and yids -- The same new thing -- Names away -- The celebrity iceberg -- Anglo-, Franco-, and other odd philias -- Setting the snob's table -- The art of with-it-ry -- A grave but localized disease.

Joseph Epstein's witty new book surveys American snobbery after the fall 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. Playing throughout the book is the question of whether snobbery is part of human nature.--From publisher description.

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