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

by Michael Gross

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802161863
• ISBN13: 9780802161864
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Boring

Typical liberal slant to everything that's wrong with the rise of capitalism, littered with stories of people no one cares anything about.