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Cheerful Money by Tad Friend (2009, Hardcover)

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Author: Tad FriendPublisher: Little Brown & Co
ISBN-10: 0316003174Subject: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13: 9780316003179Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2009Condition: Like New
Special Attributes: 1st Edition  
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New Yorker writer Tad Friend provides an intimate and wry look at his distinguished WASP family, whose lineage dates back to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Friend honestly explores their eccentric traditions, snobbishness, stinging wit, wealth and power, as well as their feuds, crimes, neuroses, and alcoholism. Using his own family as a model, he examines the role of WASPs in American culture and charts their inexorable decline in the middle of the 20th century. Written with verve and warmth, CHEERFUL MONEY teems with oddball characters and off-kilter anecdotes. It manages to be simultaneously deeply personal, hugely funny, and fascinating.

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Length:351 pages
Height:8.3 in.
Width:5.8 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:17.6 oz.

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The son of a Swarthmore College president evaluates the culture through which privileged families like his own thrived and dominated America for centuries before their fortunes failed in the 1960s, a period during which he assessed both the heyday of "Wasp" life and the dysfunction that had come to dominate his family.

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"Using cash as a 'behavioral-management tool' is just one Wasp peccadillo that Friend nails in CHEERFUL MONEY, a suave, sharp-witted, generally intoxicating but occasionally sobering expose of his native culture....Friend is one of the least whiny and most incisive insiders to chronicle this privileged world, and he does so with style and soul."
 (09/11/2009)

"WASPs' legendary courtesy is at the heart of Tad Friend's winsome memoir, which recounts, with amiable nostalgia, the foibles and predilections of a declining caste....The author's warmth and pleasant wit, his reliably graceful prose style, usually manage to carry the day."
 (09/25/2009)

"[C]harming, informative, and moving....Friend is at his best describing the odd rituals of family life and the outmoded ambitions and prejudices of his class."
 (09/27/2009)

"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...memoir....Friend's book is such a winning family chronicle that the decline he describes is less a fall than an exhilarating ride, less sad than heartwarmingly comic."
 (10/11/2009)

"Friend's recollections of WASP America in the throes of decline are frequently amusing, carefully modulated, occasionally wearying and unfailingly stylish. Friend is one of those journalists with an admirable eye for the telling detail, and his writing is at its best when he makes his point by allowing them to accumulate evocatively."
 (10/14/2009)


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Not a book club book, this Little, Brown FIRST EDITION hardcover with dust jacket ($24.99 retail, not price clipped) has been read once, very gently, by me. It is in excellent, like-new condition. From a smoke-free environment. Please read my feedback; it supports the accuracy of my descriptions.

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