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Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
Little Brown and Company
October 2009
On Sale: September 22, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 0316003174
EAN: 9780316003179
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his
father was president of SwarthmoreCollege, and at Smith his
mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W.H.
Auden--to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his
ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s,
their fortunes began to fall. As a young man, Tad noticed
that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of
alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics. Yet his
identity had already been shaped by the family's age-old
traditions and expectations. Part memoir, part family
history, and part cultural study of the long swoon of the
American Wasp, Cheerful Money is a captivating examination
of a cultural crack-up and a man trying to escape its
wreckage.
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