I'm in my sixties, and British. When I was a kid, my parents told me the USA wasn't divided into classes, like Britain; everyone was middle class. It wasn't tru

I'm in my sixties, and British. When I was a kid, my parents told me the USA wasn't divided into classes, like Britain; everyone was middle class. It wasn't true; there was a small aristocracy of very rich bankers and industrialists, and there was a large class of disadvantaged people; the 50s and 60s in the USA were marked by a poor working class comprising largely black people. The author's thesis might be correct; but not everyone floated on the post-WWII boom.