When All the Men Wore Hats: by Susan Cheever

When All the Men Wore Hats: by Susan Cheever

When All the Men All Wore Hats, the second study by author John Cheever’s daughter Susan, follows Home Before Dark, her longer 1984 memoir, inevitably repeating some of the material. Both accounts blend candor and tact, respect and pain, as she delves into his sense of never quite belonging to the patrician New England-New York smart-set her father limned. John came from a checkered New England legacy, one that, like the many floundering charact…