Banquet at Delmonico's : great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America / Barry Werth.

Author/creator Werth, Barry
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Random House, ©2009.
Descriptionxxxi, 362 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903--Influence.
Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.)--History. --19th century.
Social Darwinism--United States. --History. --19th century.
Human evolution--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century.
Social change--United States. --History. --19th century.
Dinners and dining--New York (State). --New York. --History. --19th century.
Intellectuals--United States. --Biography.
United States--Intellectual life. --19th century.
United States--Social conditions. --1865-1918.
United States--Social life and customs. --1865-1918.

Contents New York, November 8, 1882 -- Cambridge, 1871 -- New Haven, 1872 -- New York, 1873 -- New Haven, 1874 -- Brooklyn, 1875 -- Washington, 1876 -- Baltimore, 1877 -- Brooklyn, 1878 -- French Riviera, 1879 -- Washington, 1880 -- New York, 1881 -- New York, 1882.
Abstract Draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. Prominent among these men were the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-325) and index.
LCCN 2008016567
ISBN9781400067787 (alk. paper)
ISBN1400067782 (alk. paper)

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