Authors: Michael Knox Beran

The Last Patrician (45 page)

BOOK: The Last Patrician

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Part Two,
here
: Bobby Kennedy campaigns in Greenburg, Indiana, in May 1968 with a chipped tooth and a bruised lip. Bobby was pulled from his convertible in a motorcade the night before by enthusiastic supporters (
AP/Wide World Photos
).

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First St. Martin's Griffin Edition: June 1999

eISBN 9781250088017

First eBook edition: May 2015

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Â There will always be a difficulty in ascertaining just when a particular family entered the ranks of the so-called Protestant establishment, when it ceased to be nouveau, gauche, arriviste, non-U, and received the approbation of the arbiters of society. In his study
Philadelphia Gentlemen,
Digby Baltzell wrote that as late as 1940 families whose fortunes were made after the Civil War “were still considered ânew.'” But although men with freshly made fortunes are at first despised by the old guard, the snobs eventually relax their vigilance and are usually grateful to marry their daughters to the rich parvenu's sons. The processes by which one generation's plutocrats are transformed into the next generation's aristocrats are subtle and mysterious, and the careless historian is only too likely to overlook the intricate pattern of social fissures that separate the older elements of society from the new.