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The Philanthropists FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH Peter Hall, 1997 "The problem for wealthy Protestants, in the pre-Civil War period, is that they have money, but don't have political power. And what they want to do is turn their financial and cultural resources into political power. They want to create themselves as a class, and the way they do this is by engaging in these extraordinary enterprises of knowledge-building and institution-building, whose purpose really is to re-define the way the world is perceived. It places them and their professional authority at the center: The emergence of a national elite, national experts, who presume to make authoritative statements about what's normal and what's not, what's disability and what's not, are the same people who are creating institutions. The determination of who is worthy of help or who is in need of help or assistance, is not made by the dependent or disabled."
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