Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class

by Edward Digby Baltzell and Digby E. Baltzell

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0887387896

ISBN13:9780887387890

Release Date:August 1989

Publisher:Routledge

Length:486 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 9.2"

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