Banquet at Delmonico's : : Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xxxi, 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400067787
1400067782
SUBJECTS
Spencer, Herbert, -- 1820-1903 -- Influence.
Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
Social Darwinism -- History -- 19th century.
Human evolution -- History -- 19th century.
Social change -- History -- 19th century.
Dinners and dining -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Intellectuals -- Biography.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.