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Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor

September 30, 2009

Tad Friend writer, The New Yorker

New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend as gives us a glimpse of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor.

Tad Friend has an illustrious family tree which also happens to include numerous alcoholics, depressives, and assorted eccentrics. Welcome to the world of Wasps, a once dominant social group which has since fallen into dysfunction. Cheerful Money combines memoir, family history, and cultural critique of a social phenomenon which thrived and then failed.

Topics: Art & Architecture | Business & Economics | Culture & Identity | History | Literature & Philosophy | People & Places | Politics & Public Affairs

Tags: Authors | biography | East Coast | Memoir | New Yorker | Print | upper class | Wasp | White Anglo Saxon Protestant | working class | Career | TV & Radio | Journalists | Web Media | Economics | Family Issues | Personal Finance | Non-Fiction | Humor & Comedy | Writing Process | Lifestyle | North American | Race | Spirituality & Religion

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

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