Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
by
Tad Friend
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, 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...