| Description |
196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This is a book about me and, likely, you, too. I am British by birth, but I have lived in the United States since 2012 and became a citizen in late 2016. (Also, I was born on the Fourth of July.) There are lots of reasons I have made America my home. But one of them is the American ideal of opportunity. I always hated the walls created by social class distinctions in the United Kingdom. The American idea of a classless society is, to me, a deeply attractive one. It has been disheartening to learn that the class structure of my new homeland is, if anything, more rigid than the one I left behind, and especially so at the top"-- Page 5. |
| Subject |
Middle class -- United States.
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Social mobility -- United States.
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Wealth -- United States.
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| Other Title |
How the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust, why that is a problem, and what to do about it |
| ISBN |
9780815729129 |
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081572912X |
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