Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900-1950

294 Pages·2015·5.318 MB·English

by  John Lukacs

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JOHN LUKACS
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Copyright © 1980, 1981 by John Lukacs. Originally published by Farrar, Straus,
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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