A whirlwind tour of classism in America, codified and otherwise, from colonialism through the Clinton era. 
 Why I picked it up 
 It was a featured title at the library. Why not! 
 What I thought was interesting 
 + How intermingled classism is with racism in America, and the number of times poor whites were both lumped together with and set at odds against slaves and former slaves. 
 + The parallels between Andrew Jackson, the "cracker President" and Donald Trump: how blindly fanatic his supporters were, going so far as to celebrate him as "self taught" when documents he had written were circulated with spelling and grammar errors.