Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
Paperback
- Price:
- $17.95/拢14.99
- ISBN:
- Published:
- May 14, 2019
- Copyright:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 328
- Size:
- 5.25 x 8 in.
- No illus.
- Main_subject:
- Sociology
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From TV鈥檚 鈥渞eal housewives鈥� to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on 鈥渆asy street鈥�? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers鈥攆rom hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers鈥攖o examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us.
