Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- A WASP Genealogy -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Twilight of the WASPs -- Chapter 2: A Dying Race -- Chapter 3: Mrs. Jack Gardner and Her Unlikely Swan -- Chapter 4: Henry Adams Fails to Reform America -- Chapter 5: Cotty Peabody Leaves the Bank -- Chapter 6: Mrs. Jack Seeks a Humanized Society -- Chapter 7: The Lost Hand of John Jay Chapman -- Chapter 8: A Glorious and Most Intensely Interesting Life -- Chapter 9: The Madonnas of Henry Adams -- Chapter 10: A Constancy in the Stars: The Harvards of George Santayana -- Chapter 11: Teddy -- Chapter 12: Vida Scudder Emulates St. Francis -- Chapter 13: The Visionary Neurasthenics -- Chapter 14: Billy Wag's 'Paideia' -- Chapter 15: Henry Stimson Sees the Stars -- Chapter 16. 'Pax Americana' -- Chapter 17: The Great World and J. P. Morgan -- Chapter 18: Mandarinism -- Chapter 19: From Theodore at Armageddon to the 'New Republic' on West Twenty-first Street -- Chapter 20: Franklin and Eleanor -- Chapter 21: The WASPs Throw Off Victorianism -- Chapter 22: The New Patricians in War -- Chapter 23: The New Patricians in Peace -- Chapter 24: Lost in the Jazz Age -- Chapter 25: In the Secret Parts of Fortune -- Chapter 26: The Waste Land -- Chapter 27: Young Men Who Would Return to the Provinces -- Chapter 28: Fear Itself -- Chapter 29: The Terrors of the Earth -- Chapter 30: Joy Lane -- Chapter 31: The Death of Men -- Chapter 32: 'Pour le Mérite' -- Chapter 33: Centurions of an American Century -- Chapter 34: Burnt Offerings: The Ember Days of the WASPs -- Chapter 35: The 'Eutrapelian' Imagination, or WASP Neurasthenia-and Ours -- Chapter 36: Recessional: The WASP and God -- Chapter 37: When We Are Gone -- Postscript: Orpheus's Head -- About the Author -- Notes and Sources -- Index -- Picture Credits -- Copyright.