Joseph W. Alsop with Adam Platt, in The New York Review of Books (Nov. 9, 1989), 250 W. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10107.

For 300 years, this country was ruled, if not always governed, a small White An- glo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) elite. George Bush notwithstanding, the WASPs as a group have not enjoyed an organized po- litical victory since the upright ladies of Mrs. Charles H. Sabin's Woman's Organi- zation for National Prohibition Reform helped put martinis back on the nation's tables in 1933.
Alsop, a...