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    Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
    Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
    Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
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    Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class

    By E. Digby Baltzell

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    Although primarily a Proper Philadelphia story that starts with the city's Golden Age at the close of the eighteenth century, this classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock and Protestant (largely Episcopalian) affiliations is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy, nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia supported a series of class-creating institutions outside the family. These institutions included: the New England boarding schools; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton; and urban men's clubs and suburban country clubs. They produced, in the course of the twentieth century, a national, intercity, upper-class way of life. Philadelphia Gentlemen shows how this class reached its peak of power and influence in America on the eve of the Second World War.

    “Writing both as a Philadelphian and a sociologist, Mr, Baltzell has dissected the upper-class structure of his native city with results as fascinating as they are illuminating.”—John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate

    “In constructing a picture of the proper Philadelphian. Baltzell has made use of masses of printed material and some manuscript sources, there is little on Philadelphia and Philadelphia families which he has neglected....a gold mine of information.”—American Historical Review

    “Philadelphia Gentlemen says important things about class and power in America, and says it in ways that will interest and fascinate; both sociologists and laymen.”—Seymour Martin Lipset

    “This is a very, very important book.”—The New York Times Book Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPapamoa Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781789124118
    Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
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    E. Digby Baltzell

    Edward Digby Baltzell (1915-1996) was an American sociologist, academic and author. He became an eminent professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and was credited with popularizing the acronym WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). His work shed new light on the ruling elite of America, changing public perceptions of American society and history. Born to a wealthy Episcopalian family in Philadelphia on November 14, 1915, he attended St. Paul’s School, an Episcopal boarding school in New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940 and served as a naval aviator during both world wars, before earning his doctorate from Columbia University. Baltzell joined the faculty of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He was elected an honorary member of the Philomathean Society, the University of Pennsylvania’s literary and debating society, founded in 1813. He served as a judge for the now-legendary Philo v. Whig-Clio (Princeton University) debate of 1984, donning a London barrister’s white wig and helping to determine the victor (Philo) in the debate “Should there be a Hell?” He was appointed the Danforth Fellow at the Society for Religion in Higher Education of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1967-1968, Charles Warren Research Fellow at Harvard University from 1972-1973, and Guggenheim Fellow from 1978-1979. He was a member of the American Sociology Association, the American Studies Association, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Baltzell retired in 1986, and became Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. His published titles include American Business Aristocracy (1962), The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (1964) and Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership (1979). He died away on August 17, 1996.

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