Background
Fussell, Paul was born on March 22, 1924 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Paul and Wilhma Wilson (Sill) Fussell.
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Excerpts from distinctive poems illustrate the author's appreciation of the metrical and formal aspects of poetry Title: Poetic Meter and Poetic Form Author: Fussell, Paul Publisher: McGraw-Hill College Publication Date: 1979/06/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 78014548
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The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to housing. Based on careful research and told with grace and wit, Paul Fessell shows how everything people within American society do, say, and own reflects their social status. Detailing the lifestyles of each class, from the way they dress and where they live to their education and hobbies, Class is sure to entertain, enlighten, and occasionally enrage readers as they identify their own place in society and see how the other half lives.
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The author of Class has created a satirical reference work that excoriates those things in modern life that are promoted as simply wonderful but are, in fact, BAD. Paul Fussell writes that we are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash. BAD is devoted to identifying examples of the phony or witless that public relations attempts to persuade us are genuine or grand.
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From Boy Scouts to soldiers, nurses to UPS workers, chefs to nuns, Paul Fussell describes, in sharp and telling anecdotes, the history and meanings of various uniforms. He reveals their secret language and unfolds their cultural significance. Focusing on the American scene, he holds up a mirror to the folks who head off to work each morning in regulated clothing and charts the fault lines of the desire for conformity and individuality. In examining the way uniforms unite and divide us, he ranges over the globe, describing, among other things, the Russian love of shoulder boards, the German obsession with black, and the Italian enthusiasm for feathered military hats. According to Fussell, we are what we wear, and sometimes our get-ups say surprising things. Uniforms is vintage Fussell — a blend of vinegar and grace, of keen cultural insight and hilarious wit, equal parts spoof and illuminating social analysis.
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According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel -- from brass buttons to blue jeans, badges to feather flourishes -- revealing what our clothing says about class, sex, and our desire to belong. With keen insight and considerable curmudgeonly flair, Fussell unfolds the history and c
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The Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like, from the point of view of the children—for children they were—who fought it. While dealing definitively with issues of strategy, leadership, context, and tactics, Fussell has an additional purpose: to tear away the veil of feel-good mythology that so often obscures and sanitizes war’s brutal essence. “A chronicle should deal with nothing but the truth,” Fussell writes in his Preface. Accord-ingly, he eschews every kind of sentimentalism, focusing instead on the raw action and human emotion triggered by the intimacy, horror, and intense sorrows of war, and honestly addressing the errors, waste, fear, misery, and resentments that plagued both sides. In the vast literature on World War II, The Boys’ Crusade stands wholly apart. Fussell’s profoundly honest portrayal of these boy soldiers underscores their bravery even as it deepens our awareness of their experiences. This book is both a tribute to their noble service and a valuable lesson for future generations. From the Hardcover edition.
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National Book Award Winner Paul Fussell tells the breathtaking story of WWII from the young soldiers' points of view. WWII was not the glorified picture it is often depicted to be. For the American soldier it was a tiring, emotional, and gruesome experience. Fussell's extensive details and insight help to make this story come alive.
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This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly ambition, and magnificent . . . in its achievement. The author's command of the primary sources is staggering in breadth and depth, deftly orchestrated and rich with insight. . . . Deploying an avalanche of evidence. . . Rahe shows how alien the modern project, in all its diverse versions, was to the classics as well as the Bible.--Thomas L. Pangle, Political Theory
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author and university professor
Fussell, Paul was born on March 22, 1924 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Paul and Wilhma Wilson (Sill) Fussell.
Bachelor, Pomona College, California, 1947. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Pomona College, California, 1981. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1949.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952. Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1983. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Monmouth University, New Jersey, 1985.
Instructor English Connecticut College, 1951-1955. Member faculty Rutgers University, since 1955, John DeWitt professor English literature, 1976-1983. Donald T. Regan professor English literature University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1983-1994, professor emeritus, since 1994.
Consultant editor Random House, 1963-1964. Lecturer American universities, since 1965. Visiting professor Kings College, London, 1990-1992.
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(The author of Class has created a satirical reference wor...)
(National Book Award Winner Paul Fussell tells the breatht...)
(According to the renowned social critic and historian Pau...)
(This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanti...)
(This book is a brilliant antidote to the military romanti...)
('No managerial or administrative task is as universally d...)
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(This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly am...)
( “Fresh, alert, commanding and likely to be a landmark i...)
(Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear by Fussell, Paul [Marin...)
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Author: The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism, 1965, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, 1965, review, 1979, Samuel Johnson and The Life of Writing, 1971, The Great War and Modern Memory (National Book Critics Circle award 1975, National Book award 1976), Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, 1980, The Boy Scout Handbook & Other Observations, 1982, Class: A Guide through the American Status System, 1983, Thank God for the Atom Bomb & Other Essays, 1988, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, 1989. BAD: or The Dumbing of America, 1991, The Anti-Egoist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters, 1994, Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, 1996, Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear, 2002, The Boys Crusade, 2003. Contributing editor Harper's, 1979-1983, The New Republic, 1979-1985.
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow Royal Society Literature, Society of America Historians. Member Modern Language Association, Academy Literature Studies.
Married Betty Ellen Harper, June 17, 1949 (divorced 1987). Children: Rosalind, Samuel. Married Harriette Rhawn Behringer, April 11, 1987.