![]() ![]() a monogrammed shirt and the right shoes will get you everywhere, apparently. His name was on the wall.Īn accent sounding kind of like Katharine Hepburn's cousin. He was on the board of directors of one of the most exclusive private clubs in Boston. And basically, through this series of references, he would expand his circle larger and larger and soon have access to everything. And then he'd get reciprocity at other clubs because other clubs trusted that clubs like them had good members. He is the author of four previous works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, and Up in. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, GQ, Vogue, New York, and Esquire. He'd be dressed right he'd tell people he was a Rockefeller he'd make friends with them he'd get in that club. WALTER KIRN is a contributing editor to Time and GQ and a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. Somehow he'd get to the party and no one would bar him at the door. He'd go to a party at a yacht club, say, in Connecticut. This book is a meditation to a large degree on the social contract and how so much of what people appear to be is based on what they say they are, or what other people say they are. ![]() On how Rockefeller exploited the social contract ![]()
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