Wasps
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Wasps

The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Wasps

The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

About this book

An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as mucha culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind. Charming, witty, and vigorously researced, WASPS traces the rise and fall of this distinctly American phenomenon through the lives of prominent icons from Henry Adams and Theodore Roosevelt to George Santayana and John Jay Chapman. Throughout this dynamic story, Beranchronicles the efforts ofWASPsto better the world around them as well as the struggles of theseWASPsto break free from their restrictive culture. The death of George H. W. Bush brought about reflections on the end of patricianWASPculture, where privilege reigned, but so did a genuine desire to use that privilege for public service. In the time of Trump—who is the antithesis of trueWASPculture—people look at the John Kerry, Bobby Kennedy, and Philip and Kay Grahams of the world with wistfulness. And even though we are a more diverse and pluralistic nation now than ever before, there is something aboutWASPculture that remains enduringly aspirational and fascinating. Beginning at the turn of the 20thcentury, Beran's saga dramatizes the evolving American aristocracy that forever changed a nation—and what we can still glean fromWASPculture as we enter a new era.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2021
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781643137070
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. A WASP Genealogy
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Twilight of the WASPs
  8. Chapter 2: A Dying Race
  9. Chapter 3: Mrs. Jack Gardner and Her Unlikely Swan
  10. Chapter 4: Henry Adams Fails to Reform America
  11. Chapter 5: Cotty Peabody Leaves the Bank
  12. Chapter 6: Mrs. Jack Seeks a Humanized Society
  13. Chapter 7: The Lost Hand of John Jay Chapman
  14. Chapter 8: A Glorious and Most Intensely Interesting Life
  15. Chapter 9: The Madonnas of Henry Adams
  16. Chapter 10: A Constancy in the Stars: The Harvards of George Santayana
  17. Chapter 11: Teddy
  18. Chapter 12: Vida Scudder Emulates St. Francis
  19. Chapter 13: The Visionary Neurasthenics
  20. Chapter 14: Billy Wag’s ‘Paideia’
  21. Chapter 15: Henry Stimson Sees the Stars
  22. Chapter 16. ‘Pax Americana’
  23. Chapter 17: The Great World and J. P. Morgan
  24. Chapter 18: Mandarinism
  25. Chapter 19: From Theodore at Armageddon to the ‘New Republic’ on West Twenty-first Street
  26. Chapter 20: Franklin and Eleanor
  27. Chapter 21: The WASPs Throw Off Victorianism
  28. Chapter 22: The New Patricians in War
  29. Chapter 23: The New Patricians in Peace
  30. Chapter 24: Lost in the Jazz Age
  31. Chapter 25: In the Secret Parts of Fortune
  32. Chapter 26: The Waste Land
  33. Chapter 27: Young Men Who Would Return to the Provinces
  34. Chapter 28: Fear Itself
  35. Chapter 29: The Terrors of the Earth
  36. Chapter 30: Joy Lane
  37. Chapter 31: The Death of Men
  38. Chapter 32: ‘Pour le MĂ©rite’
  39. Chapter 33: Centurions of an American Century
  40. Chapter 34: Burnt Offerings: The Ember Days of the WASPs
  41. Chapter 35: The ‘Eutrapelian’ Imagination, or WASP Neurasthenia—and Ours
  42. Chapter 36: Recessional: The WASP and God
  43. Chapter 37: When We Are Gone
  44. Postscript: Orpheus’s Head
  45. About the Author
  46. Notes and Sources
  47. Index
  48. Picture Credits
  49. Copyright

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