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

For decades, writers 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 remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle.



From Colonial America's founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of Ame...