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cheerful money me my family and the last days of wasp splendor
tad friends 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 familys 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 .
hardcover little brown and company 2009 isbn13 9780316003179 isbn10 0316003174
abridged n isbn 13 9780316003179 number in series 1 number of pages 351 publisher little brown & co release date 62135769600000