What was it like to be born into a family of declining prominence and fading glamour? We’ll talk this hour with New Yorker writer Tad Friend, whose new memoir is “Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor” (Little, Brown and Company, 2009).
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