Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor, (Paperback)

from Schmerguls

5601. Cheerful Money Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, by Tad Friend (read 5 Dec 2018) I had this book and for no good reason decided to read it, and since I usually finish books I start I did finish it. There seems little point to the account which the author, now a writer for t...

from bobbieharv

I read his story in the New Yorker about his relationship with his mother and liked it, so I thought I'd like this book - also since I live in Swarthmore where his father was president of the college in the 70s. The openness he had about his mother seems to have disappeared, perhaps because of th...

from eas311

I'm all about WASPs. This book was a fascinating family history, but much less funny than I was led to believe. That's okay though.