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Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America Author:Barry Werth 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 philo... more »sopher Herbert Spencer?s honor at the venerable New York restaurant Delmonico?s in 1882. In this thought-provoking and nuanced account, Werth firmly situates social Darwinism in the context of the Gilded Age. Banquet at Delmonico?s is social history at its finest.« less