WASPs: the splendors and miseries of an American aristocracy

1. Twilight of the WASPs

2. A dying race

3. Mrs. Jack Gardner and her unlikely swan

4. Henry Adams fails to reform America

5. Cotty Peabody leaves the bank

6. Mrs. Jack seeks a humanized society

7. The lost hand of John Cay Chapman

8. A glorious and most intensely interesting life

9. The Madonnas of Henry Adams

10. A constancy in the stars: the Harvards of George Santayana

11. Teddy

12. Vida Scudder emulates St. Francis

13. The visionary neurasthenics

14. Billy Wag's Paideia

15. Henry Stimson sees the stars

16. Pax Americana

17. The Great World and J.P. Morgan

18. Mandarinism

19. From Theodore at Armageddon to the New Republic on West Twenty-first Street

20. Franklin and Eleanor

21. The WASP's throw off Victorianism

22. The new patricians in war

23. The new patricians in peace

24. Lost in the Jazz Age

25. In the secret parts of fortune

26. The waste land

27. Young men who would return to the provinces

28. Fear itself

29. The terrors of the Earth

30. Joy Lane

31. The death of men

32. Pour le Mérite

33. Centurions of an American century

34. Burnt offerings: the ember days of the WASPs

35. The Eutrapelian imagination, or WASP neurasthenia

and ours

36. Recessional: the WASP and God

27. When we are gone

Postscript: Orpheus's head.