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Article: And where does your son go to college?(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2002
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In his jaunty and delightful "Snobbery: The American Version," Joseph Epstein tackles the very human inclination to condescend. Approaching snobbery from many of the quarters in which it thrives and sometimes chastens, he takes a breezily scholarly and very funny look at why and how we look down our noses.
After an opening in which he forthrightly describes his own background, a modest one - Jewish, middle class, of parents lacking a college education and who favored Boston Pops over anything weightier -Mr. Epstein presents an overview of snobbery in America, guided inevitably by his own biases and insights. The ...