Flight of the Wasp: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

by Michael Gross

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802161871
• ISBN13: 9780802161871
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 480 Pages