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There's actually a recipe I can tell you for you to become
socially acceptable. You have to go to the right pre-school.
It starts that young.
—R. Couri Hay, society columnist
Since one of the hallmarks of America is its supposed social
mobility, it should theoretically be easy for a financially
successful person to gain entree into the reaches of the
social elite. But as writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, John
O'Hara, and Tom Wolfe have detailed, new money has always
had to go to great lengths to prove itself worthy of belonging.
The struggle for acceptance continues today in such bastions
of privilege as the Hamptons on Long Island, where New York
society summers. People Like Us goes behind the scenes of
an upper-class fundraising party, full of Hearsts and Rockefellers,
and listens to the wisdom of social chronicler R. Couri
Hay as he prescribes a "recipe" for becoming accepted by
Society.
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