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George, Being George, November 2008
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Old Money, September 1996
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OLD MONEY
By: Nelson W. Aldrich

The Mythology of Wealth in America

Allworth Press
September 1996
309 pages
ISBN: 1880559641
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Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction

This insider's look at inherited wealth in the United States explores the complex meanings of money and success in American sociey with a new introduction that examinies whether America's privileged class will be willing or able to play a leadership role in the twenty-first century.

"This witty and elegant meditation on the making and the meaning of America's upper clas is both a delight to read and an act of social illumination." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"I don't think any insider has told us more about any class in America than Nelson Aldrich tells us here about his own." —Philip Roth

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