Preppy Detroit
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| Interests | Preppies, Preppy, Prep, Ivy League, Oxbridge |
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| Favorite movies | Dead Poets Society (1989), School Ties (1992), Metropolitan (1989), Dare (2009), Cruel Intentions (1999), Rushmore (1998), Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Making the Grade (1984), Sixteen Candles (1984), Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), Another Country (1984), If (1968), Diabolique (1955), Carol (2015), A Single Man (2009), Far From Heaven (2002), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Savage Grace (2007), Grey Gardens (1975), The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006), The Paper Chase (1973), National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) |
| Favorite books | Take Ivy by T. Hayashida, The Ivy League by Daniel Cappello, The Old Money Book by Byron Tully, The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach, 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 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 |