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Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
(Hardcover, 2009)
Author: Barry Werth
Draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, an...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1400067782
ISBN-13: 9781400067787
Jan 2009
Publisher: Random House Inc
362 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
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.
| Size | | Length: | 362 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Werth depicts these ferociously ambitious thinkers as engaged in a Darwinian fight to the finish, each vying to lay out the most persuasive theories and win the widest reputation."
(02/01/2009)
"Readers who want an engaging story that deepens their knowledge of [Darwinism] will find BANQUET AT DELMONICO'S to be a literary treat."
(02/11/2009)
"Werth's book reminds us that, in the past, the "progressive" doctrine of Darwinism authorized a very reactionary politics--culminating in the eugenics movement and the forced sterilization of unfit mothers. It is worth remembering that the most advanced members of society, intellectually speaking, are not always the wisest or the best."
(02/09/2009)
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