Philadelphia Gentlemen The Making of a National Upper Class

Name: Philadelphia Gentlemen The Making of a National Upper Class
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ISBN: 9781351499880

ISBN-10: 1351499882

ISBN-13: 9781351499880

Edition: 1989

Authors: Roger L. Geiger

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This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life became an end of itself, instead of an effort to consolidate power and control, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class…

Book details

List price: $33.33
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/5/2017
Pages: 476
Language: English

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University. His books include "Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth" and "Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace".