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This is a classic study of Philadelphia’s business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a classic of modern social science.
Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, Sheldon has seen and done it all, and now in this candid memoir, he shares his story for the first time.
IMPORTANT: Both Volume One & Volume Two are required for the complete BOOK of DEW. Over 42 years of research into the surname DEW, and spelling variations, in the United States. Started in 1975, this research attempts to document the relationships among all the ancestors and descendants of the DEW surname from all parts of this country.
This book is to serve as a textbook for students of Tax Law and/or of European Law, & as a reference book for tax or Community Law practitioners. In about 450 pages it offers a survey or the tax implications of European integration, & a discussion of the Community tax rules in force & pending. Roughly, the contents may be divided into five main themes: national tax consequences of primary Community Law (Community loyalty; non-discrimination; 'the four' freedoms'; external tax relations; case law of the European Court); Community tax harmonisation policy (the ABC-, Van den Tempel-, Neumark-, Derringer-, & Ruding Reports; the White Paper; the Maastricht Treaty; Subsidiarity; survey of the nati...
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