Judgment and Sensibility

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ISBN: 9781560000488 | 1560000481
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/1994

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Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four decades of writing, these essays cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary politics, democratic elitism, Puritanism, Judaism, higher education, urbanization, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others.

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Introduction: Thoughts Out of Season: E. Digby Baltzell and the Protestant Establishment	p. 1
From Rags to Robes: The Horatio Alger Myth and the Supreme Court	p. 25
Rich Men in Politics	p. 47
Class Authority in American History	p. 55
The Forging of an Aristocracy	p. 65
The Log Cabin Myth	p. 67
Gentlemen in Crisis: The Union League of Philadelphia	p. 71
Cadwaladers and Others	p. 75
Scenes from American Life	p. 79
From Patrician to Professional Elite	p. 83
The Rich and the Super-Rich	p. 87
The Peabody Influence	p. 91
The Celebrity and the Gentleman	p. 95
White Protestant Americans	p. 99
Blue-Blood Blues	p. 103
Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization	p. 107
Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy	p. 109
The Rise and Fall of the Elites	p. 111
Five Contemporary Ben Franklins	p. 113
The Architecture of Frank Furness	p. 121
Philadelphia, the Crossroads of America	p. 125
The Divided Metropolis	p. 131
Class in Suburbia	p. 133
Goodbye to All That: Upper-Class Origins of American Sport	p. 135
The Sixties	p. 155
Habits of the Heart	p. 161
An Exploration of Subculture in American Life	p. 165
Canon and Class	p. 171
Bell Telephone's Experiment in Education	p. 179
Soldiers and Civilians	p. 189
Urbanization and Governmental Administration	p. 195
Class and Scientism: America and England	p. 207
Factory Folkways	p. 213
The Illusions of Progress	p. 217
Changes in the Philadelphia Jewish Community	p. 221
The Jewish Communities of Philadelphia and Boston, 1740-1940: A Tale of Two Cities	p. 229
The Ordeal of Civility	p. 267
Drunk as a Lord, Sober as a Judge: The English Reformation and the Puritans	p. 271
Index	p. 309
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