Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp

Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor

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.Â For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life.Â But then, in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall.Â As a young man, Tad noticed that his family tree, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics.Â Yet his identity had already been shaped by the family's age-old traditions and expectations.Â Part memoir, part family history, andÂ 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.
Country USA
Brand Back Bay Books
Manufacturer Back Bay Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-07-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780316003186

Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor