Table of Contents

One: A Problem Defined; I: Class Authority and Leadership; Two: Privileged and Ruling Classes: A Theory of Class Authority and Leadership; Three: Boston Brahmins and Philadelphia Gentlemen: An Empirical Test; II: Puritan and Quaker Patterns of Culture and Their European Roots; Four: Reformation England: From Brawling Lord to Sober Judge; Five: The Puritan Revolution and the Rise of Quakerism; Six: Puritan and Quaker Patterns of Culture: The Theology of Culture; III: The Colonial Experience: Comparative History; Seven: The Founding of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; Eight: The Classic Ages of the Two Colonies; Nine: Heresy, Hierarchy, and Higher Education; Ten: Provincial Boston and Cosmopolitan Philadelphia in the Age of Thomas Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin; IV: The Age of Transition; Eleven: The Great Generation: Founders of the New Nation; Twelve: Philadelphia’s Silver Age and Boston’s Federalist Family Founders; V: The National Experience: Comparative Institutions; Thirteen: Wealth: The Fertilizer of Family Trees; Fourteen: Education and Leadership; Fifteen: Boston and Philadelphia and the American Mind; Sixteen: Art and Architecture; Seventeen: The Learned Professions: Law, Medicine, and the Church; Eighteen: The Governing of Men: Deference and Defiant Democracy; VI: Two Test Cases; Nineteen: Catholics in Two Cultures; Twenty: Philadelphia Orthodox Quakerism: A Deviant Case Suggests a Rule

About the Author

E. Digby Baltzell (1915-1996) was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Protestant Establishment Revisited and Philadelphia Gentlemen.

Reviews

-This fascinating book is... a significant illumination of our contemporary crisis of leadership.- --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -This is a very impressive work, the crowning achievement of Baltzell's scholarship.- --John Lukacs -Such cultural analysis--long out of fashion as too soft (as opposed to econometrics) or too racist (who is to say that one culture is better than another?)--is due for a comeback. It starts to explain, in a way that mere fiscal analysis does not, why Miami has become the gateway to Latin America, why Los Angeles rules the Pacific Rim and why Chicago controls the Midwest. And it helps us to understand how New York City moved in 30 years from the humiliation of near bankruptcy to being the dominant city on earth.- --Julia Vitullo-Martin, The Wall Street Journal, October 2006 -A book of clear writing and lively reading, warm concern and sparkling human interest.- --Philadelphia Inquirer -A penetrating and readable study.- --The Boston Globe

"This fascinating book is... a significant illumination of our contemporary crisis of leadership." --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. "This is a very impressive work, the crowning achievement of Baltzell's scholarship." --John Lukacs "Such cultural analysis--long out of fashion as too soft (as opposed to econometrics) or too racist (who is to say that one culture is better than another?)--is due for a comeback. It starts to explain, in a way that mere fiscal analysis does not, why Miami has become the gateway to Latin America, why Los Angeles rules the Pacific Rim and why Chicago controls the Midwest. And it helps us to understand how New York City moved in 30 years from the humiliation of near bankruptcy to being the dominant city on earth." --Julia Vitullo-Martin, The Wall Street Journal, October 2006 "A book of clear writing and lively reading, warm concern and sparkling human interest." --Philadelphia Inquirer "A penetrating and readable study." --The Boston Globe

"This fascinating book is... a significant illumination of our contemporary crisis of leadership." --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. "This is a very impressive work, the crowning achievement of Baltzell's scholarship." --John Lukacs "Such cultural analysis--long out of fashion as too soft (as opposed to econometrics) or too racist (who is to say that one culture is better than another?)--is due for a comeback. It starts to explain, in a way that mere fiscal analysis does not, why Miami has become the gateway to Latin America, why Los Angeles rules the Pacific Rim and why Chicago controls the Midwest. And it helps us to understand how New York City moved in 30 years from the humiliation of near bankruptcy to being the dominant city on earth." --Julia Vitullo-Martin, The Wall Street Journal, October 2006 "A book of clear writing and lively reading, warm concern and sparkling human interest." --Philadelphia Inquirer "A penetrating and readable study." --The Boston Globe

"This fascinating book is... a significant illumination of our contemporary crisis of leadership." "- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr." "This is a very impressive work, the crowning achievement of Baltzell's scholarship." "- John Lukacs" "Such cultural analysis--long out of fashion as too soft (as opposed to econometrics) or too racist (who is to say that one culture is better than another?)--is due for a comeback. It starts to explain, in a way that mere fiscal analysis does not, why Miami has become the gateway to Latin America, why Los Angeles rules the Pacific Rim and why Chicago controls the Midwest. And it helps us to understand how New York City moved in 30 years from the humiliation of near bankruptcy to being the dominant city on earth." "- Julia Vitullo-Martin, The Wall Street Journal, October 2006"