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100	1		_aGross, Michael, _d1952- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFlight of the WASP : _bthe rise, fall, and future of America's original ruling class / _cMichael Gross.
246	3		_aFlight of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
246	3	0	_aRise, fall, and future of America's original ruling class
250			_aFirst edition.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press, _c2023.
300			_ax, 470 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 449-451) and index.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWASPs (Persons) _zUnited States _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aWhite people _xRace identity _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCapitalism _xReligious aspects _xProtestant churches.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xPolitical aspects. _9146443
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