JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Paul Fussell (1983; Touchstone, 1992).

JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell Jane Psmith and John Psmith Sep 22, 2025 415 157 84 Share Class: A Guide Through the American Status System , Paul Fussell (1983; Touchstone, 1992). The following is an email exchange between the Psmiths, edited slightly for clarity. Jane: People are always saying that Americans don’t like to talk about social class. In some sense this is true: we’ve never had a legible and clearly-articulated class system along English lines, and we pride ourselves on our society’s mobility. (Well, we pride ourselves in the ease with which people can move up. The correspon

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