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The Head of the Class
Smoler, Fredric Paul | January 21, 1991 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Imperial Middle," by Benjamin DeMott. Benjamin DeMott argues in "The Imperial Middle" that the American situation is a deal bleaker than the one assumed by author Jean Jacques Rousseau, for one finds it almost impossible to concede that structural social inequality-- class, in the more recent locution-- is a significant constraint on our lives. He is tersely eloquent about the extent to which the politics are deformed and the public discourses distorted by this systematic deceit and evasion, asserting the incapacity to acknowledge the sweep and power of class in conditioning the fates is the single most terrible obstacle one faces in constructing a polity less cruelly unjust.

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IMPERIAL Middle, The (Book); DEMOTT, Benjamin; EQUALITY; SOCIAL classes; POLITICAL science; BOOKS
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