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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Werth, Barry.
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Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence.
Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
Social Darwinism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Human evolution -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Dinners and dining -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
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Banquet at Delmonico...
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Banquet at Delmonico's : great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America / Barry Werth.
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Werth, Barry.
New York : Random House, c2009.
Subjects
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence.
Delmonico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
Social Darwinism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Human evolution -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social change -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Dinners and dining -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
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9781400067787 (alk. paper) :
1400067782 (alk. paper)
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xxxi, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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1st ed.
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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.
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