Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Thoughts Out of Season; 1: From Rags to Robes: The Horatio Alger Myth and the Supreme Court; 2: Rich Men in Politics; 3: Class Authority in American History; 4: The Forging of an Aristocracy; 5: The Log Cabin Myth; 6: Gentlemen in Crisis: The Union League of Philadelphia; 7: Cadwaladers and Others; 8: Scenes from American Life; 9: From Patrician to Professional Elite; 10: The Rich and the Super-Rich; 11: The Peabody Influence; 12: The Celebrity and the Gentleman; 13: White Protestant Americans; 14: Blue-Blood Blues; 15: Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization; 16: Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy; 17: The Rise and Fall of the Elites; 18: Five Contemporary Ben Franklins; 19: The Architecture of Frank Furness; 20: Philadelphia, the Crossroads of America; 21: The Divided Metropolis; 22: Class in Suburbia; 23: Goodbye to All That: Upper-Class Origins of American Sport; 24: The Sixties; 25: Habits of the Heart; 26: An Exploration of Subculture in American Life; 27: Canon and Class; 28: Bell Telephone's Experiment in Education; 29: Soldiers and Civilians; 30: Urbanization and Governmental Administration; 31: Class and Scientism: America and England; 32: Factory Folkways; 33: The Illusions of Progress; 34: Changes in the Philadelphia Jewish Community; 35: The Jewish Communities of Philadelphia and Boston, 1740-1940: A Tale of Two Cities; 36: The Ordeal of Civility; 37: Drunk as a Lord, Sober as a Judge: The English Reformation and the Puritans
