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Article: Last Stop on The Main Line
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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CHEERFUL MONEY
Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
By Tad Friend
Little, Brown
351 pp. $24.99 The more diverse America becomes, the more
remarkable it must seem that its founders were of a single creed and
color: Yet it was white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who wrote the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, establishing
principles of a free nation, and Bostonian Wasps who led
abolitionism. Today you'd be hard-pressed to find a city -- even
in hidebound New England -- where old Yankee families rule.
American Wasps are now as rare as black truffles, and rarely has
their story been told so candidly or entertainingly as it is in Tad
Friend's wonderful new memoir, ...
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