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100 1  Gross, Michael,|d1952-|eauthor. 
245 10 Flight of the WASP :|bthe rise, fall, and future of 
       America's original ruling class /|cMichael Gross.
       |h[Boundless electronic resource] 
246 3  Flight of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant 
250    First edition. 
250    First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c2023. 
300    1 online resource 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of
       the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's 
       history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to 
       Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed 
       the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who
       for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political
       force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last 
       half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to 
       the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael
       Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle of the WASPs in 
       our history. From Colonial America's founding settlements 
       through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces 
       the complicated legacy of American WASPs-their profound 
       accomplishments and egregious failures-through the lives 
       of fifteen influential individuals and their very 
       privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the 
       Bradford, Randolph, Morris, Biddle, Sanford, Peabody, and 
       Whitney clans, among others, progress, prosper, and 
       stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of 
       American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious 
       religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, 
       and intolerance; the creation and sometime misuse of 
       astonishing economic, political, and social power; an 
       enduring belief in the future; an instinct to offset 
       inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for 
       irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. "American 
       society was supposed to be different," writes Gross, "but 
       for most of our history we have had a patriciate, an 
       aristocracy, a hereditary oligarchic upper class, who 
       initiated the American national experiment." In previous 
       acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues' Gallery, 
       Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding 
       the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four 
       centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and 
       consequential contribution to American history"--
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650  0 WASPs (Persons)|zUnited States|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 White people|xRace identity|zUnited States. 
650  0 Capitalism|xReligious aspects|xProtestant churches. 
651  0 United States|xRace relations|xPolitical aspects. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aGross, Michael, 1952-|tFlight of the 
       WASP|bFirst edition.|dNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 
       2023|z9780802161864|w(DLC) 2023023631 
856 40 |uhttps://libid.boundless.baker-taylor.com/ng/view/library
       /title/0030617775|zFound on Boundless