Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class

by Edward Digby Baltzell and Digby E. Baltzell

Book Overview

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"