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The Protestant Establishment - Aristocracy and Caste in America (Paperback)
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The Protestant Establishment - Aristocracy and Caste in America (Paperback)
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This classic account of the traditional upper class in America
traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes
from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F. Kennedy.
Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell describes the problems of exclusion
and prejudice within the community of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants
(or WASPs, an acronym he coined) and predicts with amazing accuracy
what will happen when this inbred group is forced to share
privilege and power with talented members of minority groups. "The
book may actually hold more interest today than when it was first
published. New generations of readers can resonate all the more to
this masterly and beautifully written work that provides
sociological understanding of its engrossing subject."-Robert K.
Merton, Columbia University "The documentation and illustration in
the book make it valuable as social history, quite apart from any
theoretical hypothesis. As such, it sketches the rise of the WASP
penchant for country clubs, patriotic societies and genealogy. It
traces the history of anti-Semitism in America. It describes the
intellectual conflict between Social Darwinism and the
environmental social science founded half a century ago by men like
John Dewey, Charles A. Beard, Thorstein Veblen, Franz Boas and
Frederick Jackson Turner. In short, The Protestant Establishment is
a wide-ranging, intelligent and provocative book."-Alvin Toffler,
New York Times Book Review "The Protestant Establishment has many
virtues that lift it above the level we have come to expect in
works of contemporary social and cultural analysis. It is clearly
and convincingly written."-H. Stuart Hughes, New York Review of
Books "What makes Baltzell's analysis of the evolution of the
American elite superior to the accounts of earlier writers . . . is
that he exposes the connections between high social status and
political and economic power."-Dennis H. Wrong, Commentary
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