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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Times Books, 2005.
Description:	xviii, 267 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Social classes -- United States. Social mobility -- United States. Social values -- United States. Social stratification -- United States. Social classes -- United States -- Case studies. Social classes. Social mobility. Social stratification. Social values. United States. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5728908

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Other uniform titles:	New York times.
ISBN:	9780805080551 0805080554
Notes:	Collected from a series of articles published in the New York Times in the spring of 2005.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Shadowy Lines That Still Divide
2. Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer
3. A Marriage of Unequals
4. Up from the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither
5. On a Christian Mission to the Top
6. The College Dropout Boom
7. No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle
8. Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung
9. When the Joneses Wear Jeans
10. The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life
11. Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New
12. Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind
13. In Fiction, a Long History of Fixation on the Social Gap
14. Angela Whitiker's Climb
Encounters with Class
My Nanny Was a Dreadful Snob
Downwardly Mobile in Birmingham
From the Bronx to Cornell
At the Top of the Bottom in the Segregated South
We Were Poor, but I Didn't Know It
Appendix. The New York Times Poll on Class
Internet Resources