The Status Revolution
The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow
Who invented rescue dogs? Why are luxury brands losing their cachet? What’s made F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous observations about the rich obsolete? The answers are part of a new revolution that’s radically reorganizing the way we view ourselves and others. More…
“Witty and incisive … an entertaining and intelligent eye-opener.”
— Publishers Weekly
“This will be hard for pop-culture readers to put down.”
— Booklist
“A very funny, surprisingly far-reaching attempt to determine what status means.”
— Men’s Journal
“A highly original book that is both eye-opening and hilarious.”
— Joe Queenan, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of Closing Time
Books by Chuck Thompson
Better Off Without ’Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism
Smile When You’re Lying Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
The 25 Essential World War II Sites
European Theater
The 25 Best World War II Sites
Pacific Theater
Featured Reviews
“Hilarious, dirty, and incendiary.”
—Vanity Fair
“Awesomely talented and wickedly funny.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Impassioned, funny and uniquely honest.”
—Esquire
“Viciously funny. Like Matt Taibbi or Bill Maher, Thompson isn’t aiming just to entertain; he wants readers to take his underlying arguments seriously.”
—The Washington Monthly
“Often thoughtful, always irreverent.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Thompson’s weapons are wit, a well-oiled subversive reflex and a defiantly unbuttoned prose style.”
—The New York Observer
“Reading Thompson is like listening to a buddy who shoots from the hip.”
—Booklist
“Thompson is the equivalent of Joe Satriani or John Coltrane…the literary equivalent of Motorhead…the virtuosity can leave your mouth hanging open.”
—Booklocker.com
Chuck Thompson
CHUCK THOMPSON is the author of the widely reviewed political screed Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, acclaimed comic travel memoirs Smile When You’re Lying and To Hellholes and Back, and a two-volume World War II survey (The 25 Best World War II Sites: Pacific Theater and The 25 Essential World War II Sites: European Theater), regarded as the most comprehensive catalog of World War II sites in existence. More…
Sometimes When We Touch
The Reign, Ruin and Resurrection of Soft Rock
Now streaming on Paramount+. See the official trailer on Variety.
Three-part documentary created, written and executive produced by Chuck Thompson. Streaming on Paramount+ in 2023.
