Preparing for power
Subtitle: America's elite boarding schools
By: Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Caroline Hodges Persell.
Contributors: Persell, Caroline Hodges.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Preparatory schools -- United States; Upper class -- Education (Secondary) -- United States
Description: 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. -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 240-249.
Includes index.