Style Over Substance: The Decline Of Preppy Values
Last week Susan Cheever, daughter of legendary WASPdom chronicler John Cheever and a celebrated author in her own right, wrote a piece for Newsweek entitled “Gin Without The Tonic.” The URL of the digital version explains the theme a little less cryptically: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/05/how-modern-preppies-got-the-style-but-forgot-the-values.html The theme of Cheever’s essay — that the uber-rich of today are …