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A World of Profit chronicles the cultural transition in American high society as old money collides with the aggressive, profit-driven ethos of the 1960s. The plot centers on Jay Livingston, a Jewish real estate developer who changes his name to climb the social ladder, and the Shallcross family, a wealthy, fading WASP dynasty living in their ancestral Queens mansion. The story explores the tension between these two worlds as Jay pursues the Shallcrosses romantically and socially while simultaneously plotting to buy their home for a lucrative housing development. Through this conflict, Auchincloss, a noted chronicler of New York’s patrician class, examines the erosion of traditional manners and the rise of financial pragmatism in American aristocracy.
