The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few

How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, fictional narratives revolving around Ivy League peers in order understand education peculiar position cultural discourse. Among book's most surprising groundbreaking insights is tenacity adaptability meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite fundamental incompatibility system.