The Best of the Best : Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.
2009
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Title
The Best of the Best : Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.
ISBN
9780674053878
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (312 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674053878 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
373.2/220973
Summary
For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. For Gaztambide-Fernández, Weston is daunting yet strikingly bucolic, inspiring but frustratingly incurious, and sometimes - especially for young women - a gilded cage for a gilded age.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Totally Elite
2. Getting In
3. Being Smart, Working Hard
4. Reserved Seating
5. Bonding Rituals
6. Unequal Distinctions
7. Envisioning an Elite Future
appendix Researching Identification at an Elite Boarding School
notes
acknowledgments
index
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Totally Elite
2. Getting In
3. Being Smart, Working Hard
4. Reserved Seating
5. Bonding Rituals
6. Unequal Distinctions
7. Envisioning an Elite Future
appendix Researching Identification at an Elite Boarding School
notes
acknowledgments
index