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
Air Mail says Flight of the WASP is “illuminating history.”
“Flight of the WASP…sheds light on why America’s old ruling class produced so many basket cases…illuminating history…It is the virtue of [Gross’] book that it brings the now defunct patricians to life in all their doubleness, begetters of American prosperities who drove themselves crazy trying to heal American hysterias.” —Michael Knox Beran, Air Mail
Today’s Esquire reviews Flight: “A Tell-All Revealing the Dark Secrets of America’s Elite”
Aron Solomon’s online legal mag Today’s Esquire calls Flight of the WASP “a wild journey through the scandalous lives of 15 famous families who have played a pivotal role in shaping America’s elite landscape. This captivating exposé pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of the WASP dynasty, unraveling their intricate web of power, […]