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...piecing together hundreds of such slivers of class consciousness, Coleman and Rainwater present a fractured mirror of how we see ourselves in the social hierarchy. Their book glitters with oddments: the highest-status job is president of a billion-dollar corporation; the most envied use of money is for travel and expensive recreation; inherited money automatically earns a higher social standing regardless of class; college graduates who are not doing well (earning less than $20,000 a year) emphasize their degrees when claiming status identification; to the proudest group belong those who got rich without much formal education; the welfare...
...Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman...
...rich widow who is quite literally Groucho's biggest backer. There are millions of classic scenes in the film, including Chico's trial for treason, a war conference that evolves into a revival meeting ("I got guns, you got guns, all God's chillun got guns."), and the famous mirror sequence. Serious critics have tried to treat the film as a sophisticated surrealistic masterpiece; that kind of analysis, while plausible, just misses the point. Duck Soup works because it whisks away the hypocritical veneer of rationality which policymakers too often use to conceal the real meaning of their actions; like...
...Michael Blumenthal, Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller, White House Economics Adviser Charles Schultze, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, Senator Edward Kennedy, House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, and Conable. What emerged, among other things, was a surprisingly broad consensus that tax policy, both as a mirror of the nation's goals and as a tool to help achieve them, is moving-and must continue to move-in a new direction...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen