The Best of the Best : : Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School / / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gaztambide-Fernández, Rubén A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674053878; 9783110442212; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674053878?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.

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.