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Philadelphia Gentleman - The Making Of A National Upper Class (Hardcover)
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Philadelphia Gentleman - The Making Of A National Upper Class (Hardcover)
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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. The
quantitative backbone of the book is based on the 770
Philadelphians of various class and ethnicn backgrounds listed in
Who's Who in America in 1940, an index of the elite leadership
structure; 226 members of this elite also came from upper-class
families listed in the Social Register that year. In addition,
Baltzell shows howthese upper-class members dominated the financial
and business power structure of the city in 1940. Thus, although he
describes the upper-class style of life in Philadelphia in
fascinating detail, he constantly emphasizes that it is power and
influence over the whole social structure, rather than style of
life per se, that is an essential quality of a properly functioning
upper class. Whenever an upper-class way of life becomes an end in
itself, in other words, its usefulness is over. In an afterword,
written in the 1960s and included in this edition, Baltzellshows
how this is what has happened since the end of World War II.
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