Tad Friend books

Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor (2009)

Parts of this book of a very WASPy family were touching, but I found little cheerful about it. (Perhaps because, by their standards there wasn't much money? Frankly, if my family had had $47,000 net worth inherited in 1964 we'd been laughing our heads off. But I obviously don't have WASP menta...