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Age of Excess: the United States from 1877-1914
Age of Excess the United States from 18771914 Author:Ray Ginger "His adroit intermingling of diplomacy, imperialism, the Supreme court, the Negro question, the DuPont Company, tariffs, the Harvard elective system, and the farm problem; his pungent asides on Henry James, Edidth Wharton, Harold Frederic, and Edward Arlington Robinson; his mordant portraits of Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft and othe... more »rs--all presented in a staccato history-need-not-be-dull-style--make his book a kind of historical tour de force." --Daniel Arron, The Annals, September, 1965« less