The Protestant Establishment Revisited

In the latter half of the twentieth century, The American upper class has become less like an aristocracy governing and guiding the nation and more like a caste, a privileged and closed body whose contribution to national leadership has steadily declined

Autorentext

E. Digby Baltzell

Inhalt
1: Elite and Upper-Class Indexes in Metropolitan America; 2: Upper Class and Elites; 3: The WASP's Last Gasp; 4: The American Aristocrat and Other-Direction; 5: The Protestant Establishment Revisited; 6: Upper-Class Clubs and Associations in Philadelphia; 7: Social Mobility and Fertility Within an Elite Group; 8: Thorstein Veblen: Scientism and the Modern Mood; 9: W.E.B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro; 10: Reflections on Aristocracy; 11: The Search for Community in Modern America; 12: To Be a Phoenix: Reflections on Two Noisy Ages of Prose; 13: Cultural Pluralism in Modern America and William Penn's Colony of Pennsylvania; 14: Social Class in the Oval Office