Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep–school life and underlife.
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Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep–school life and underlife.
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Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools

Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools

Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools

Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools

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Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep–school life and underlife.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465062690
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 09/30/1987
Edition description: REPRINT
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile: 1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

Peter W. Cookson, Jr., is senior research associate in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

Caroline Hodges Persell is professor and chairperson in the Department of Sociology at New York University.
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