WGBH Forum Network; Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
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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.