Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools

by Peter W Cookson Jr, Caroline Hodges Persell

Overview

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:	9780786724161
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	08/04/2008
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	784 KB

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.