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- 9781400067787
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1400067782
ISBN-13
9781400067787
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66850583
Product Key Features
Book Title
Banquet at Delmonico's : Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Sociology / General, United States / 19th Century, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, United States / General, Science & Technology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Cooking, Social Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-016567
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Advance praise forBanquet at Delmonico's "Barry Werth has written a banquet of a book, a sumptuous feast of distinctive characters and delicious vignettes that places evolution indelibly at the center of Gilded Age controversy." Christopher Benfey, author ofThe Great Wave and A Summer of Hummingbirds "Few ideas have had a bigger (or sorrier) impact than the nineteenth-century notion that nations and races are engaged in a survival of the fittestand that the Anglo-Saxons are the fittest of them all. By telling the story through a few shrewdly chosen and thoroughly fascinating people, Werth animates an idea and brings to life a memorable age." Evan Thomas, author ofSea of ThunderandRobert Kennedy "What a thrilling ride Barry Werth takes us on! His narrative history of the triumph of Darwinism in America has some of the qualities of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia: one bold character and striking scene after another, all in the service of a single great idea whose repercussions are still being felt today." Anthony Giardina, author ofRecent HistoryandWhite Guys "A rich, entertaining slab of Victorian American history, focused on the debate over evolution . . . Histories of ideas are rarely page-turners, but Werth has done the trick." Kirkus Reviews(starred review), Advance praise for Banquet at Delmonico's "Barry Werth has written a banquet of a book, a sumptuous feast of distinctive characters and delicious vignettes that places evolution indelibly at the center of Gilded Age controversy." Christopher Benfey, author of The Great Wave and A Summer of Hummingbirds "Few ideas have had a bigger (or sorrier) impact than the nineteenth-century notion that nations and races are engaged in a survival of the fittestand that the Anglo-Saxons are the fittest of them all. By telling the story through a few shrewdly chosen and thoroughly fascinating people, Werth animates an idea and brings to life a memorable age." Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder and Robert Kennedy "What a thrilling ride Barry Werth takes us on! His narrative history of the triumph of Darwinism in America has some of the qualities of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia: one bold character and striking scene after another, all in the service of a single great idea whose repercussions are still being felt today." Anthony Giardina, author of Recent History and White Guys "A rich, entertaining slab of Victorian American history, focused on the debate over evolution . . . Histories of ideas are rarely page-turners, but Werth has done the trick." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Dewey Decimal
303.40973/09034
Synopsis
InBanquet at Delmonico's, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author ofThe Scarlet Professor, 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. The United States in the 1870s and '80s was deep in turmoila brash young nation torn by a great depression, mired in scandal and corruption, rocked by crises in government, violently conflicted over science and race, and fired up by spiritual and sexual upheavals. Secularism was rising, most notably in academia. Evolutionand its catchphrase, "survival of the fittest"animated and guided this Gilded Age. Darwin's theory of natural selection was extended to society and morals not by Darwin himself but by the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, father of "the Law of Equal Freedom," which holds that "every man is free to do that which he wills," provided it doesn't infringe on the equal freedom of others. As this justification took root as a social, economic, and ethical doctrine, Spencer won numerous influential American disciples and allies, including industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz. Churches, campuses, and newspapers convulsed with debate over the proper role of government in regulating Americans' behavior, this country's place among nations, and, most explosively, the question of God's existence. In late 1882, most of the main figures who brought about and popularized these developments gathered at Delmonico's, New York's most venerable restaurant, in an exclusive farewell dinner to honor Spencer and to toast the social applications of the theory of evolution. It was a historic celebration from which the repercussions still ripple throughout our society. Banquet at Delmonico'sis social history at its finest, richest, and most appetizing, a brilliant narrative bristling with personal intrigue, tantalizing insights, and greater truths about American life and culture.
LC Classification Number
HM631.W47 2009
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