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100 1 Gross, Michael,|d1952-|eauthor.
245 10 Flight of the WASP|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]
:|bthe rise, fall, and future of America's original ruling
class /|cMichael Gross.
246 3 Flight of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
264 1 New York :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c2023.
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500 Electronic book.
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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533 Electronic reproduction.|bLaVergne|cGrove Atlantic|d2023
|nAvailable via World Wide Web.
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.
655 0 Electronic books.
710 2 OverDrive, Inc.,|edistributor.
776 08 |iOnline version:|aGross, Michael, 1952-|tFlight of the
WASP First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover
edition.|dNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023
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