ABSTRACT

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.

chapter Introduction|24 pages

Thoughts Out of Season

E. Digby Baltzell and the Protestant Establishment

chapter 2|8 pages

Rich Men in Politics

chapter 5|4 pages

The Log Cabin Myth

chapter 11|4 pages

The Peabody Influence

chapter 14|4 pages

Blue-Blood Blues

chapter 21|2 pages

The Divided Metropolis

chapter 22|2 pages

Class in Suburbia

chapter 24|6 pages

The Sixties

chapter 25|4 pages

Habits of the Heart

chapter 27|8 pages

Canon and Class

chapter 29|6 pages

Soldiers and Civilians

chapter 32|4 pages

Factory Folkways

chapter 36|4 pages

The Ordeal of Civility