Bibliograph

Philadelphia gentlemen;, the making of a national upper class

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Philadelphia gentlemen;, the making of a national upper class

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Philadelphia gentlemen;

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

the making of a national upper class

Summary

Although primarily a Proper Philadelphia story that starts with the city's Golden Age at the close of the eighteenth century, this classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock and Protestant (largely Episcopalian) affiliations is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy, nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia supported a series of class-creating institutions outside the family. These institutions included: the New England boarding schools; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton; and urban men's clubs and suburban country clubs. They produced, in the course of the twentieth century, a national, intercity, upper-class way of life. Philadelphia Gentlemen shows how this class reached its peak of power and influence in America on the eve of the Second World War

Target audience

adult

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