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Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America (Expanded Edition)
by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.
This insider's look at inherited wealth in the United States explores the complex meanings of money and success in American sociey with a new introduction that examinies whether America's privileged class will be willing or able to play a leadership role in the twenty-first century.
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Reviews
"This witty and elegant meditation on the making and the meaning of America's upper class is both a delight to read and an act of social illumination."
—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"I don't think any insider has told us more about any class in America than Nelson Aldrich tells us here about his own."
—Philip Roth
"Old Money may be the best onfiction book about the American upper class by one of its members since Henry Adams's Education."
—The Atlantic
"Provocative and absorbing."
—The New York Times
"A scrupulously researched, remarkably reasoned study."
—Vogue
"As thoughtful a psychological portrait of America's aristocracy as we have."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
". . . a witty and provocative look at the culture of the American upper class and the values and meanings of inherited wealth. . . . OLD MONEY is a fascinating window into the psyche of a class that only those born to it have heretofore truly understood."
—Reviewer's Bookwatch
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