The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow
Written by Chuck Thompson
Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
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About this audiobook
Status was once easy to identify—fast cars, fancy shoes, sprawling estates, elite brands. But in place of Louboutins and Lamborghinis, the relevance of the rich, famous, and gauche is waning and a riveting revolution is underfoot.
Chuck Thompson—dubbed “savagely funny” by The New York Times and “wickedly entertaining” by the San Francisco Chronicle—sets out to determine what “status” means today and learns that what was once considered the low life has become the high life. In The Status Revolution, Thompson tours the new world of status from a small community in British Columbia where an indigenous artist uses wood carving to restore communal status; to a Washington, DC, meeting of the “Patriotic Millionaires,” a club of high-earners who are begging the government to tax them; to a luxury auto factory in the south of Italy where making beautiful cars is as much about bringing dignity to a low-earning region than it is about flash and indulgence; to a London lab where the neural secrets of status are being unlocked.
“Chock-full of fascinating revelations” (In Touch Weekly) and with his signature wit and irreverence, Thompson explains why everything we know about status is changing, upends centuries of conventional wisdom, and shows how the new status revolution reflects our place in contemporary society.
Chuck Thompson
In 1987, after several adolescents in his town attempted and one committed suicide, Chuck decided to return to North Central College to finish a degree in psychology and then to go to Wheaton College Graduate School for a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology. After graduating he took a job as a counselor at Naperville Community Outreach and taught part-time at North Central College. A year later he was recruited by King College to move to Bristol, Tennessee to be the director of the school’s counseling center. For the past twenty-five years, Chuck’s normal work week (from September through April) includes 20 hours of counseling students, 20 hours of private practice, and teaching 2 college courses. During this time he has also taught graduate courses at ETSU and Radford University. The epistle of James became a focal point for Chuck. Between 1995 and 2005 he wrote four applied theology books based on James, designed and taught two college courses based on James; Spiritual Formation and the Epistle of James and Introduction to Christian Counseling. His interested in James eventually led him to write his first novel, The Bishop of Jerusalem. Currently, Chuck and his wife Barb are enjoying an empty nest, which allows them to travel and visit their children and grandchildren in Chattanooga, Bristol, and Spring Hill, TN. It also allows them to travel to locations like, Tuscany, Italy, Washington, DC, and New Orleans that provide settings for his Natasha McMorales mystery novels.
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