Books by E. Digby Baltzell

Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation

Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and endorsements

Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E

Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and endorsements

Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in Boston and Philadelphia to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love.

This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century

This text is a collection of essays examining America's upper class. It reflects on the changes within the upper class in the latter half of the 20th century, and looks at, amongst other things, how these have affected the country's political leadership.