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McCosh influence on Ivy Lee: Ibid., pp. 21–22.

Carnegie's gospel of wealth: Quoted in ibid., p. 22.

Chapter 21:
Comme Il Faut

Description of “Horseback Dinner”: A. S. Crockett,
Peacocks on Parade
, p. 192.

Comments on the Bradley-Martin ball: Quoted in C. Amory,
Who Killed Society?
, p. 520.

Chapter 22: “To Serve
…”

The
Fortune
articles: Quoted in L. T. Wertenbaker and M. Basserman,
The Hotchkiss School, A Portrait
, p. 133.

“It was the most natural thing”: F. Ashburn,
Peabody of Groton: A Portrait
, p. 71.

“Groton School is perfectly incomprehensible”: Quoted in Wertenbaker and Basserman, p. 135.

“He never seemed to enter”: Ibid.

“If some Groton boys”: Quoted in T. Morgan,
FDR
, p. 66.

“Don't let Papa worry”: Quoted in ibid.

Henry Adams: Quoted in ibid., p. 60.

“In fact I've never understood” and other quotes in this paragraph: George Van Santvoord to author.

The new boys' rules: G. N. Stone, “What's Going On Here?,”
Hotchkiss School Alumni Magazine
(Winter 1983): 9–10.

“What is it you want to know?”: L. T. Wertenbaker and M. Basserman,
The Hotchkiss School, A Portrait
, p. 111.

“I am sure you have all heard”: Van Santvoord quoted from author's memory.

Wilmarth S. Lewis quoted: Interview with author.

Chapter 23: The Bogus Versus the Real

Details of the Mabel Greer story: D. W. Peck,
The Greer Case
.

Chapter 24: Family Curses

“I happen to be a good Episcopalian”: Mrs. Ijams quoted by Timothy Beard in interview with author.

“He was my grandfather's first cousin”: John Jay Iselin, interview with author.

“very morbidly conscientious”: R. B. Hovey,
John Jay Chapman
, p. 12.

“Certainly it is not respectable”: quoted in ibid., p. 21.

“To play like that”: Ibid., p. 20.

“The English stage”: Ibid., p. 14.

“The next thing I remember”: quoted in M.A.D. Howe,
John Jay Chapman and His Letters
, pp. 59–60.

“the great alienist”: Ibid.

“I am perfectly well and happy”: Ibid., pp. 60–61.

“Being an old agitator”: Quoted in R. B. Hovey,
John Jay Chapman, An American Mind
, p. 287.

“sane, though imaginative”: Ibid., p. 159.

Chapman's last words: Ibid., p. 347.

“Now may I have your attention!”: Quoted in R. H. Boyle,
At the Top of Their Game
, p. 1.

“You have always said”: Ibid., p. 2.

“They don't make any noise”: Ibid., p. 3.

“You can abolish”: Ibid.

“Close the blinds”: Ibid., p. 4.

“Isn't it remarkable”: Ibid., p. 5.

“Winty knits”: Ibid.

The obscure Virginia statute: Ibid., p. 6.

The
New York Post
comment: Ibid., p. 7.

“Who's loony now?”: Ibid., p. 7.

Ethel Barrymore quoted: Ibid.

Chapter 25: The Great Splurge

Town Topics:
Quoted in M. M. Mooney,
Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White
, p. 77.

“I was brought up to be”: Mrs. Virginia Thaw Wanamaker, interview with Scott Areman.

“We were very privileged characters”: Mr. John Preston, interview with Scott Areman.

“It was as bad an upbringing”: Mr. Craig K. J. Mitchell, interview with Scott Areman. Similarly, all Mitchell quotes in this chapter.

“There are certain values”: J. Carter Brown, interview with author.

President Wriston anecdote: Ibid.

“That portrait”: Ibid.

“Not so”: Ibid.

“I remember driving”: Ibid.

“There are eight grandchildren”: Ibid.

“The English system”: Mrs. John Jermain Slocum, interview with author. Similarly, all other Slocum quotes in this chapter.

“Good morning, Mrs. Mortimer”: Craig Mitchell, interview with Scott Areman.

Chapter 26: The Family Place

“The last of the great”: John Jay Iselin, interview with author.

“My grandmother was”: Ibid.

“It seems to me”: Mary Livingston Ripley, interview with author.

“Yes, the Livingstons still take”: John Jay Iselin, interview with author.

“We don't like to dine out”: Ibid.

“The family has always pulled its weight”: Eleanor Iselin Wade, interview with author.

The Mary-Ripley-at-Newport anecdote: Mrs. Ripley observed by author.

The Martha Breasted anecdote: Mrs. Breasted, interview with author.

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INDEX

Adams, Henry,
248

Adams, James Truslow,
160–61

Adams, John,
22

Adams, John Quincy,
9

Adams, Nabby,
57–58

Addison, Mrs. Francis Girault, III,
166

Age of Innocence, The
(Wharton),
217
,
219

Aldrich, Richard Chanler,
278–79

Aldrich, Winthrop,
310

Alexander, William,
49

Alsop, John,
64
,
65

Alsop, Joseph, III,
64

Alsop, Joseph Wright, I,
64

Alsop, Mary,
66

Alsop, Stewart Johonnot Oliver,
64–65

Alsop family,
64–68

American Colonization Society,
142

America's 60 Families
(Lundberg),
12–13

Amestoy, Mrs. Michel François, II,
180

Amory, Cleveland,
141

Ancestry

importance of,
10–11
,
14
,
161

invented,
256–62

Andrews, Charles, M.,
157

Areman, Scott,
320

Aristocracy.
See also
individual cities

characteristics of,
112

criticism of,
227–28

eccentricities of,
131–32

expectations of,
264–65

perceived need for,
111–12

predicted demise of,
125

secret,
161

Armstrong, Margaret Rebecca,
119

Arno, Peter,
242

Ashdoor, Heinrich,
116

Assembly, The,
219–20

Astor, Helen,
133

Astor, John Jacob,
115–22

described,
60
,
115–16
,
118

marries,
116

real estate dealings,
117

Astor, John Jacob, Jr.,
119

Astor, Sarah Todd,
116

Astor, Mrs. William,
12

Astor, William Backhouse,
119

Astor family,
13

Auchincloss, Annie Burr,
253–54

Auchincloss, Hugh D.,
257

Auchincloss, Louis,
13
,
242

Auchincloss family,
258

Bacon, Nathaniel,
91–92

Bacon's Rebellion,
92

Ballooning,
55

Baltzell, E. Digby,
146
,
305–06

Bank of New York,
78

Barrett, Dr. Jan de la Guerra y Noriega,
183

Battle of Bloody Run,
92

Bayard, Anna Maria,
38

Beard, Charles A.,
145
,
227–28

Beard, Timothy F.,
11

Beebe, Lucius,
218

Beekman, Colonel Henry,
88

Beekman, Margaret,
88

Belmont, August,
216–20

Belmont, Frances,
286

Benson, Egbert,
19

Berkeley, Sir William,
91
,
92–93

Bermuda Hundred,
91
,
93

Billings, C. K. G.,
233
,
234

Boarding schools.
See
Prep schools

Boarding-school stammer,
6

Bohemian Club,
213–14

Boston aristocracy,
9
,
139–44
,
147

Brahmins,
139–43
,
292

Boston Tea Party,
20

Bouncers,
114

Bouvier, John V.,
257

Bradford, Governor William,
155

Bradley-Martin, Mr. and Mrs.,
235

Brady, George T., Jr.,
200–02

Breasted, Martha Ferguson,
316–18

Breeding.
See also
Class

defined,
14
,
78–79

importance of,
315–16

Breeze, James L.,
128

Bridlespur Hunt Club,
173–77

British class system,
6–12

Brook Club,
209

Brown, Anne Kinsolving,
292–96

Brown, Chad,
292

Brown, J. Carter, III,
91
,
211
,
292
,
294
,
295–97
,
302

Brown, John,
292

Brown, John Carter,
293
,
297

Brown, John Nicholas,
292–95
,
297

Brown, Moses,
292

Brown, Nannie,
49–51

Brown, Nicholas,
292