On August 17, 1996, while vacationing at his summer home, Baltzell was stricken with chest pains and hospitalized at Hyannis, then was moved to Boston, where he died at Brigham and Women's Hospital, aged 80.
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He dedicated one of his books to "all my undergraduate friends at the University of Pennsylvania, many of them grandsons of immigrants to the urban frontier, who, in spite of their possessing too many Jaguars and mink-coated mothers, have constantly been renewed by faith in the American Dream of unlimited opportunity".
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He could often be seen pedaling an old one-speed bicycle between his Delancey Place home near Rittenhouse Square and Penn's West Philadelphia campus.
Digby Fairweather | George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol | Digby | Matthew Digby Wyatt | Digby, Nova Scotia | Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby | Kenelm Henry Digby | Everard Digby | Anne Digby | Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby | Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly | Kenelm Digby | George Digby Barker | George Digby | Digby Jephson | Digby County, Nova Scotia | Digby Anderson | Baron Digby | William Digby Seymour | William Digby, 5th Baron Digby | Richard "Digby" Smith | Richard Digby Day | Marié Digby | Little River, Digby, Nova Scotia | Kenelm Hubert Digby | Jane Digby | George J. Digby | E. Digby Baltzell | Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal district) | Digby, Lincolnshire |
In his introduction, Domhoff writes that the book was inspired by the work of four men: sociologists E. Digby Baltzell, C. Wright Mills, economist Paul Sweezy, and political scientist Robert A. Dahl.