Philadelphia Gentlemen
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This is a classic study of Philadelphia’s business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a classic of modern social science.
E. Digby Baltzell (1915-1996) was Emeritus Professor in the sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as in various visiting professorial roles at Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard University. He was author of 'The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America' and 'Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia’ Two Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Class Authority', where many ideas initially suggested in Philadelphia Gentlemen' were first worked out.