Flight of the Wasp: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class (Gross Michael)(Pevná vazba)

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. From Colonial America's founding settlements through
the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs--their
profound accomplishments and egregious failures--through the lives of fifteen
influential individuals and their very
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