Snobs
The Classic Guidebook to Your Friends, Your Enemies, Your Colleagues, and Yourself
Published on 31. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-06-170640-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this humorous look at the phenomenon of snobbery, Lynes begins by stating, 'the social snob, while not extinct, has gone underground (except for professionals such as headwaiters and metropolitan hotel room-clerks), and snobbery has emerged in a whole new set of guises'. He playfully skewers the many types that have since emerged, from Emotional Snobs to Sensual, Political, Taste, Regional, and Reverse Snobs. In vivid characterizations that run the gamut, Lynes' cutting wit brings out his contemporaries' foibles with humor and elan. It includes a number of illustrative drawings by Robert Olson.
Reviews / Votes
"One of America's foremost arbiters of taste and mores... Essayist, social historian, photographer and Renaissance man, Mr. Lynes was an acclaimed expert on what was highbrow, what was lowbrow and what was no brow at all." -- New York TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
112 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-170640-0 (9780061706400)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Russell Lynes (1910-1991) was an art historian, cultural critic, author, photographer, and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. His articles for Harper's and Life in 1949 made parsing American culture into highbrow, upper or lower middlebrow, and lowbrow a national pastime. He wrote many books, including Snobs and The Tastemakers.