[yamtaddle]

Not about war, but the same author's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, published in 1983, is insightful and very entertaining.

Incidentally, if anyone knows of a worthy successor, I'd love to read it. His observations remain remarkably accurate in most cases (his completely-off take on "Class X" notwithstanding) but there must be more to say on the topic since then.

[bwanab]

"Class" seems to have held up very well. I remember back when it was published trying to shoehorn myself into his "Class X". I had to squint really hard.

[yamtaddle]

I think the core problem was his not recognizing Class X as just the usual bohemian avant-garde, and thinking that it represented some shift in the class hierarchy rather than a constant part of it. His hope for some bright future for this "classless" class was simply misplaced, because he didn't see what it actually was. Which makes the end of that otherwise fun book kind of a downer.

[buescher]

Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks is "what happened when the upper middle class became class X". You could argue whether it's worthy or not, but it's what we've got.