New Yorker Staffer John McPhee, a man who can write—and has written—a whole book about oranges ... The members of McPhee’s little aristocracy are all professionals who perform their work ...

I have met the butlers, eaten the quiches, and climbed the roofs. So when it came to writing a history of the modern aristocracy, I had a head-start. A labour of love, my book Heirs and Graces, has ...