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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
The Mauve Decade American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century Author:Thomas Beer Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade -- from high society to the closing of the West -- bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's presidential election.