A Preppy Reading List

Preppy Reads:

The Old Money Book by Byron Tully

The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach

Take Ivy by T. Hayashida

The Ivy League by Daniel Cappello

Sociological Preppy Reads:

The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America by E. Digby Baltzell

Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership by E. Digby Baltzell

Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class by E. Digby Baltzell

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu

Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu

The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias

The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

Magazines:

Town and Country

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