Five years ago this month, at lunch with the publisher Morgan Entrekin, I told him of a book I’d long wanted to write about White Anglo Saxon Protestant families over the course of the then-398 years (or about 20 generations) since the Mayflower reached Massachusetts. That book, now titled Flight of the WASP, will be published this fall by Morgan’s Atlantic Monthly Press. A lot has happened since that lunch, including the abandonment of a character I’d originally planned to include, the special prosecutor Robert Swan Muller III (above, left), whose wife Ann Cabel Standish is a lineal descendant of Myles Standish (above, right), who sailed here on the Mayflower and became the military advisor of the Plymouth colony. The Standish family didn’t make the cut, but a dozen other Colonial clans, both eminent and not so, did. Watch this space for more on the book.