WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

Published: Dec. 30, 2021, 7:40 a.m.

From politics to fashion, their style still intrigues us. WASPs produced brilliant reformers\u2014Eleanor, Theodore, and Franklin Roosevelt\u2014and inspired Cold Warriors\u2014Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Joe Alsop. They embodied a chic and an allure that...