Volume 3, Number 9 · December 17, 1964
The Wasps
By H. Stuart Hughes
The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America
by E. Digby Baltzell
Random House, 429 pp., $6.95
Digby Baltzell's 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 in plain English, rather than journalese or the jargon of social science. It is a real book: neither a collection of miscellaneous essays jostling one another between the same covers nor the mistaken result of an editor's advice to inflate a magazine article. Perhaps most admirable of all, Baltzell does not hide behind the conventional mask of 'objectivity.' He tells us at once what he is doing and how he feels about it.
Review, 1474 words
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