Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900-1950 PDF
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BOOKS BY JOHN LUKACS The Great Powers and Eastern Europe Tocqueville: The European Revolution and Correspondence with Gobineau (ED.) A History of the Cold War Decline and Rise of Europe A New History of the Cold War Historical Consciousness The Passing of the Modern Age The Last European War, 1939—1941 1945: Year Zero LOST URBAN CLASSICS First paperback publication © 2015. Copyright © 1980, 1981 by John Lukacs. Originally published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, NY. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conven- tions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Transaction Publishers, 10 Corporate Place South, Suite 102, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854. www. transactionpub.com Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2015009867 ISBN: 978-1-4128-5597-6 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lukacs, John, 1924- Philadelphia : patricians and philistines, 1900-1950 / by John Lukacs. pages cm Originally published: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited., 1980. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4128-5597-6 -- ISBN 978-1-4128-5616-4 1. Philadelphia (Pa.)-- Social life and customs. 2. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography. 3. Upper class-- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. I. Title. F158.5.L9 2015 974.8’11--dc23 2015009867 To Paul Philadelphian born and bred CONTENTS 1 Philadelphia, 1900 3 2 Boies Penrose Or The Conservative as Gargantua 39 3 Agnes Repplier Or The Writer in Solitude 67 4 Edward W. Bok Or Franklin Reincarnate 117 5 William Christian Bullitt Or The Rebel Philadelphian 143 6 George Wharton Pepper Or The Patrician as Pharisee 171 7 Owen Wister Or The Decline of the West 189 8 Albert Coombs Barnes Or The Methodist as Aesthete 203 9 Philadelphia, 1950 243 Bibliographical Notes 271 Index 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Boies Penrose, standing beside a Fourth of July float 38 Agnes Repplier at the start of her career in 1886 66 Edward W. Bok in 1928 Photo by Chandler 116 Ambassador William C. Bullitt in Paris, Armistice Day, 1937 142 George Wharton Pepper in 1927 at age sixty 170 Owen Wister as a young man Photo courtesy of the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie 188 Albert C. Barnes Photo by Carl Van Vechten 202
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