ABSTRACT
After more than two hours of discussion, the interview with Steve and Jan Hadley in St. Louis was ending. Beyond the windows of their family room it was dusk outside. Their white suburban neighborhood was quieting down as families regrouped for dinner in their houses. The Hadley children were anxious for dinner themselves and anxious for their parents’ attention, and Steve and Jan had told seemingly everything there was to tell about their family’s wealth and their school decisions. The tape recorder was about to be turned off. Suddenly, Steve asked if he could add something. Sitting forward in his chair with a focused look on his face, his entire demeanor had shifted. Throughout the interview he had taken a laid back, jovial tone, but Steve abruptly had become intensely serious.
