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Article: He Defined the WASP -- And Stung It
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 20, 1996
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Without the work of E. Digby Baltzell, we might not know what
to call George Bush, except Poppy.
Baltzell invented the term "WASP." Before the acronym first
appeared in his 1964 book, "The Protestant Establishment:
Aristocracy and Caste in America," one had to spell out White
Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Although, having done so, you would have
barely begun to communicate all that WASP had come to connote by the
time of Baltzell's death on Saturday, at age 80.
"The term took off," said Frank Furstenberg, a fellow
sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, where Baltzell carved
an impressive career from studying the nation's elite when
colleagues were more likely to lavish attention ...
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