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Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Barry Werth
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| #2288807 in Books | 2011-04-01 | 2011-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.18 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| How Charles Darwin made it in the U.S.|By John R. Dana|This book was well written and centered around the well-placed individuals (e.g. Andrew Carnegie, Herbert Spencer, Henry Ward Beecher) who made Darwinism an accepted philosophy in the United States. It gave fairly adequate summaries of their personal beliefs and how these beliefs were shaped by social events and individual||"Readers who want an engaging story... will find Banquet at Delmonico's to be a literary treat." (Boston Globe) "On one level, the book is a study of how ideas are understood, reworked, mangled and applied to society: Banquet at Delmonico's is like a racier ve
In Banquet at Delmonico’s, Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin’s controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a crucial intellectual encounter, culminating with an exclusive farewell dinner held in English philosopher Herbert Spencer’s honor at the venerable New York restaurant Delmonico’s in 1882. In th...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America | Barry Werth. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
