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Outside a few holiday resorts, authentic WASPs have mostly disappeared from view. Since
Gilligan s Island introduced Thurston Howell III, most Americans know them only as comic figures in brightly colored holiday attire.
In his perceptive new book,
WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy, Michael Knox Beran shows that this caricature is deceiving. The WASPs legacy is still with us even though their accents and rituals have become punchlines. They may have lost much of their privilege and cohesion, but their creations including the administrative state, elite education, and charitable foundations remain dominant influences on American life.
The term WASP was never quite accurate. This strand of the American elite was uniformly white, but not Anglo; Dutch, French, and sometimes more exotic blood flowed through its veins. Its members were mostly Protestants, but some were not. And the vast majority of American Protestants did not belong to
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At this moment, if your goal is to spend as much money as possible on a single, brand-new car, you’re kind of out of luck, because it seems that most expensive new car in the world has been sold, at a rumoured $US28 ($36) million dollars, to some anonymous money-haver. You shouldn’t feel bad, though, because I bet your credit rating wasn’t good enough to get that 112,000-month/9.3 millennia loan you needed to keep the monthly payments at about $US250 ($321). The car is the coachbuilt Rolls-Royce Boat-Tail, and you will likely never ever even get near it.