He had ready entrée to the best clubs—the Fly at Harvard, the Century in New York, the Council on Foreign Relations—and so he felt free to quit them on principle and without regret when, for example, they solicited his money to hire lawyers to keep women out. He hated the rich. This was sociologically necessary for someone of his background, since new money pissed on the values of Lake’s class, possessed the power his class thought it was due, and aroused the material envy it pretended not to feel. No one inspired this class’s lust for power like Jack Kennedy (and no one again until Barack
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