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...Americans, may be the most abused word in American English. This could be the main dilemma facing the redoubtable chronicler of Britain's titled nobility, Debrett's Peerage, which has set out to publish a ten-volume series on the American aristocracy. Debrett's editor, Martin Stansfeld, an untitled Scot who attended Eton and Oxford and whose family "goes back to the Normans," explains that the series will concentrate on "the glittering star system of America's social leadership...
...California Peerage that fall. New York gets its treatment in 1986, to be followed the next year by a volume for Boston and most of the New England area. The entire series is to be completed in 1990, by which time the ranks of American "patricianhood'' (Stansfeld's term) will doubtless have expanded to fit legions of new peers. Judging from the Texas volume", many of those elevated have ancestors of no greater moral ignobility than most of the milords listed in Debrett's (British) Peerage...
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