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History Unplugged Podcast

WASPs: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From politics to fashion, their style still intrigues us. WASPs produced brilliant reformers—Eleanor, Theodore, and Franklin Roosevelt—and inspired Cold Warriors—Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Joe Alsop. They embodied a chic and an allure that...

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You can wield a lot of influence if you keep it in the family or the tribe.

1:05.0

The problem they found right away, and it became even more pronounced as time went on,

1:09.9

is that nepotism is not a great formula for keeping an institution vibrant.

1:16.7

You just can't keep promoting people because their father had the job.

1:21.1

So, the watch, particularly after World War II,

1:24.5

they knew their institutions to compete, to be competitive, to be first rate,

1:28.5

needed to take in talented outsiders.

1:30.9

And that was partly the drive to create a meritocratic-based system

1:35.7

and to find supposedly more objective ways of measuring intelligence.

1:41.3

The history is just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

1:55.8

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explained

1:59.1

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