Swinehart on Friend’s “Cheerful Money”
David Pesci<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/15/swinehart-on-friends-cheerful-money/"></div>Asst. Prof. Kirk Swinehart calls the book ‘Cheerful Money,’ the “memoir of the season—and one for all time.”<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/15/swinehart-on-friends-cheerful-money/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt -->
Kirk Swinehart, assistant professor of history, reviews the new book by New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend titled, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. Writing for The Chicago Tribune, Swinehart says Friend” has written the memoir of the season–and one for all time. ‘Cheerful Money’ doubles as a bittersweet family portrait and deceptively subtle ethnography.”
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Mike Mavredakis