Snobbery（ISBN=9780618340736）

A national bestseller, Snobbery examines the discriminating qualities in all of us. With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism in contemporary America. He offers his arch observations of the new footholds of snobbery: food, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, being with-it, name-dropping, and much more. Clever, incisive, and immensely entertaining, Snobberyexplores the shallows and depths of status and taste -- with enviable results.

Preface
PART  ONE
1. It Takes One to Know One
2. What Is a Snob?
3. How Snobbery Works
4. The Democratic Snob
5. Snob-Jobbery
6. O WASP, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling
7. Class (all but) Dismissed
8. Such Good Taste
9. In the Snob-Free Zone
10. The High, Fine Nuttiness of Status
PART  TWO
11. To You, I Give My Heart, Invidia
12. A Son at Tufts, a Daughter at Taffeta
13. Dear Old Yarvton
14. Undubbable
15. Intellectual Snobbery, or The (Million or So) Happy Few
16. The Snob in Politics
17. Fags and Yids
18. The Same New Thing
19. Names Away!
20. The Celebrity Iceberg
21. Anglo-, Franco-, and Other Odd philias
22. Setting the Snob's Table
23. The Art of With-It-ry
CODA
24. A Grave but Localized Disease
A Bibliographical Note
Index