The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste In America
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work in American sociology, The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America presents a penetrating analysis of the WASP elite and its iron grip on the upper echelons of American society. E. Digby Baltzell argues that the old-stock Protestant establishment deliberately constructed social barriers — through exclusive clubs, schools, and corporate networks — to keep Jewish Americans and other minority groups from rising into the ruling class, transforming an open aristocracy into a closed caste. Drawing on rigorous historical and sociological research, the book chronicles how this self-defeating exclusivity ultimately undermined the vitality and moral authority of America's leadership class. Written with the clarity and conviction of a sociological classic, it remains as relevant today as when Robert K. Merton hailed it as beautifully analyzed and beautifully written… bound to become recognized as a classic. Baltzell's work stands as an essential, unflinching examination of power, privilege, and prejudice at the heart of the American dream.
Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Format: Paperback
Published: 1966, Vintage Books
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work in American sociology, The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America presents a penetrating analysis of the WASP elite and its iron grip on the upper echelons of American society. E. Digby Baltzell argues that the old-stock Protestant establishment deliberately constructed social barriers — through exclusive clubs, schools, and corporate networks — to keep Jewish Americans and other minority groups from rising into the ruling class, transforming an open aristocracy into a closed caste. Drawing on rigorous historical and sociological research, the book chronicles how this self-defeating exclusivity ultimately undermined the vitality and moral authority of America's leadership class. Written with the clarity and conviction of a sociological classic, it remains as relevant today as when Robert K. Merton hailed it as beautifully analyzed and beautifully written… bound to become recognized as a classic. Baltzell's work stands as an essential, unflinching examination of power, privilege, and prejudice at the heart of the American dream.