Michael Knox Beran
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Charming, witty, and vigorously researched, WASPS traces the rise and fall of this distinctly American phenomenon through the lives of prominent icons from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt, from George Santayana to John Jay Chapman, from Babe Paley to Edie Sedgwick. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind. Throughout this dynamic story, Beran...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In this provocative reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century American politics, Michael Knox Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy was shaped by values of the aristocratic class to which he had been brought up to belong. He was one of them, until he realized that the welfare state they had helped to create at home and the empire they had helped to found abroad were undermining some of America's most cherished traditions....
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes-- a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders-- was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight, but also by the efforts of some of the keenest minds of the period...