The Best of the Best : Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.
Gaztambide-Fernández, Rubén A., author.
2009
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Title The Best of the Best : Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.
Author Gaztambide-Fernández, Rubén A., author.
ISBN 9780674053878
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053878
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (312 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 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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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

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