{"product_id":"the-protestant-establishment-aristocracy-and-caste-in-america-9780300038187","title":"The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins  lifestyles  and political and social attitudes from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F. Kennedy. Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell describes the problems of exclusion and prejudice within the community of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (or WASPs  an acronym he coined) and predicts with amazing accuracy what will happen when this inbred group is forced to share privilege and power with talented members of minority groups. The book may actually hold more interest today than when it was first published. New generations of readers can resonate all the more to this masterly and beautifully written work that provides sociological understanding of its engrossing subject.Robert K. Merton  Columbia University The documentation and illustration in the book make it valuable as social history  quite apart from any theoretical hypothesis. As such  it sketches the rise of the WASP penchant for country clubs  patriotic societies and genealogy. It traces the history of anti-Semitism in America. It describes the intellectual conflict between Social Darwinism and the environmental social science founded half a century ago by men like John Dewey  Charles A. Beard  Thorstein Veblen  Franz Boas and Frederick Jackson Turner. In short  The Protestant Establishment is a wide-ranging  intelligent and provocative book.Alvin Toffler  New York Times Book Review The Protestant Establishment has many virtues that lift it above the level we have come to expect in works of contemporary social and cultural analysis. It is clearly and convincingly written.H. Stuart Hughes  New York Review of Books What makes Baltzells analysis of the evolution of the American elite superior to the accounts of earlier writers . . . is that he exposes the connections between high social status and political and economic power.Dennis H. Wrong  Commentary\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665892761653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300038186","price":93.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300038187.jpg?v=1782413149","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-protestant-establishment-aristocracy-and-caste-in-america-9780300038187","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}