Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Chapter One A Problem Defined -- PART I CLASS AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP -- Chapter Two Privileged and Ruling Classes: A Theory of Class Authority and Leadership -- Chapter Three Boston Brahmins and Philadelphia Gentlemen: An Empirical Test -- PART II PURITAN AND QUAKER PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND THEIR EUROPEAN ROOTS -- Chapter Four Reformation England: From Brawling Lord to Sober Judge -- Chapter Five The Puritan Revolution and the Rise of Quakerism -- Chapter Six Puritan and Quaker Patterns of Culture: The Theology of Culture -- PART III THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE: COMPARATIVE HISTORY -- Chapter Seven The Founding of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania -- Chapter Eight The Classic Ages of the Two Colonies -- Chapter Nine Heresy, Hierarchy, and Higher Education -- Chapter Ten Provincial Boston and Cosmopolitan Philadelphia in the Age of Thomas Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin -- PART IV THE AGE OF TRANSITION -- Chapter Eleven The Great Generation: Founders of the New Nation -- Chapter Twelve Philadelphia's Silver Age and Boston's Federalist Family Founders -- PART V THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE: COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter Thirteen Wealth: The Fertilizer of Family Trees -- Chapter Fourteen Education and Leadership -- Chapter Fifteen Boston and Philadelphia and the American Mind -- Chapter Sixteen Art and Architecture -- Chapter Seventeen The Learned Professions: Law, Medicine, and the Church -- Chapter Eighteen The Governing of Men: Deference and Defiant Democracy -- PART VI TWO TEST CASES -- Chapter Nineteen Catholics in Two Cultures -- Chapter Twenty Philadelphia Orthodox Quakerism: A Deviant Case Suggests a Rule -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Appendix I The Boston and Philadelphia First Family Leadership