A Confederate Descendant in 740 Park
John Thain‘s financial acumen helped him win jobs running the New York Stock Exchange and Merrill Lynch but it didn’t make him lucky in real estate at the legendary 740 Park cooperative. Thain bought Enid Annenberg Haupt’s jewel box penthouse on the building’s 17th floor in 2006 for $27.5 million, listed it for sale in […]
Cruising altitude
Sit back and enjoy the read. Flight of the WASP is holding steady and now at #2 on both key Palm Beach bestseller lists.
Flight Gains Altitude
Flight of the WASP hit #2 on the Palm Beach Daily News/Classic Bookshop bestseller list this week.
Listen to the WASP buzz
Keep your ears cocked: Flight of the WASP is coming as an audio book available for download on February 27, 2024, via Tantor media.
Flight Soars in South Florida
Flight of the WASP is #4 on both the Palm Beach Book Store and The Classic Bookshop’s bestseller lists for the week before Christmas, the only book to make both lists. Thanks Palm Beach readers!
WASPs, Whitneys and the IHT
Once, there was an International Herald Tribune, part-owned by John Hay “Jock” Whitney, a character in Flight of the WASP. Today, it’s been subsumed within the International New York Times, which also ran Alexandra Jacobs’ review of the book this weekend.
New York Times Book Review on Flight of the WASP
Alexandra Jacobs’ review of Flight of the WASP is in print tomorrow in a special issue of the NYTBR centered on wealth and class. It’s only the second time one of my books has received a full-page review, and I’m grateful to my alma mater.
Palmer fetes Palm Beach Flight fetes
Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader, where I am editor-at-large, has published a recap of all the Flight of the WASP book fetes (so far).
Flight of the Wasp is “valuable” –The Bulwark
In today’s issue of The Bulwark, Alec Dent reviews Flight of the WASP: “White Anglo-Saxon Protestants are still alive and kicking, as Michael Gross establishes fairly convincingly in Flight of the WASP—it’s just their influence that’s dearly departed. In his lengthy history, Gross makes the case for why that influence needs to return… Gross presents […]
Chew on This Book Bite
The Next Big Idea Club has released what it calls a book bite, a listen-online talk about Flight of the WASP–one of its must-read books of the month–called “You’ve Probably Forgotten This Crucial Slice of American History.” Give us fifteen minutes and we’ll give you the world of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. @nextbigideaclub