"With nearly all status signifiers in flux, books like Taylor's are more important than ever. Snobbery and immense learning, he makes plain, do not always walk hand in hand." -- Dwight Garner, New York Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a pedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's door in the early twenty-first century is to suggest that they happen to be...
"With nearly all status signifiers in flux, books like Taylor's are more important than ever. Snobbery and immense learning, he makes plain, do...
