Flight of the WASP Quotes

“Why was he so morally thin?”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

“Far from being anomalous, Sanford was an early and wildly flawed example of a new breed of WASP who consistently equated self-interest with the national interest,”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

“Ultimately, the deportation of fewer than four thousand Native Americans cost about $35 million, and Cass’s belief that force would convince the Seminole to stop their fight and leave proved wildly optimistic.111”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

“All that notwithstanding, “the original colonies did not exude universal piety,” according to a statistical study conducted in 1988. “In colonial America, no more than ten to twenty percent of the population actually belonged to a church congregation.”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

“chaos in his mind, from which nothing orderly can flow.”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

“advocating that France go to war—almost any war, but best of all a war against Britain—believing it would be a safety valve for the popular fury against the nobility.”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class

“To fit people for a republic … a previous education is necessary,” he wrote.”
― Michael Gross, Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class