Great Throughts Treasury
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E. Digby Baltzell, fully Edward Digby Baltzell
American Author, Sociologist, Academic, Author, Danforth Fellow, Professor, credited with popularizing the acronym WASP
"History is a graveyard of classes which have preferred caste privileges to leadership."
"The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places."
"There is a crisis in American leadership in the middle of the twentieth century that is partly due, I think, to the declining authority of an establishment which is now based on an increasingly castelike White-Anglo Saxon-Protestant (wasp) upper class."