Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class

For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo—Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio—cultural—political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact rema...