Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America by Barry Werth

Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America

Barry Werth

362 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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