Next-Generation Prep

It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since The Official Preppy Handbook turned “summer” into a verb. This month’s sequel, True Prep, catches one up on all that’s changed since the Reagan days. There’s been bad news (the NetJet account got closed) and good (heard of Splenda?), but the best is that prep is no longer exclusively the snobbish domain of wealthy New England WASPs. Now anyone can be a prep, and that, Muffy, is a good thing indeed. We can look forward to the time that this young man polishes his prep cred by getting a socially conscious job and marrying Malia Obama, our pick for Ms. Prep 2030. But first he simply must learn to make a good G&T — after he turns 21, of course. —Francis Storrs