"New Jersey Dreaming" is certainly the most impressive of books on the American high school experience. It makes one of the most important sociological arguments in recent years on the dynamics of class in post-World War II American society, and it presents innovations and important strategies for anthropologists conducting research in and on American society."--George Marcus, author of "Ethnography through Thick and Thin"

List of Tables and Map ix
Acknowledgments xi
Letter to the Class of '58 xv
1. Introduction:
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The Making of the Class of '58
2. Reading Class:
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3. Drawing Boundaries:
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4. Dealing with Boundaries:
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5. American High Schools:
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6. Weekquahic:
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7. Tracks:
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What the Class of '58 Made
8. Counterlives:
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9. Money:
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10. Happiness:
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11. Liberation:
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12. Late Capitalism:
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Appendix 1. Finding People / Judy Epstein Rothbard 279
Appendix 2. In Memoriam 282
Appendix 3. Lost Classmates 283
Appendix 4. The Class of '58 Today 284
Notes 295
Works Cited 313
Index 331

Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering, Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture, and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. She has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.