MONEY AND CLASS IN AMERICA
Lapham, Lewis H.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988
243 pages

Lapham ponders the dynamics of money in the American imagination as well as its effect on class structure, culture, celebrity, politics and crime. He wonders at America’s contrary impulses: charitable yet self-aggrandizing. Lapham analyzes the virtues and vices of money. He points out the contradictions inherent in wealth: leisure often breeds petty anxieties, many of the freest and best-provisioned people on earth seem most in need of therapy. This is a speculative essay which is cosmopolitan, keen and disturbing.

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