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Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America Barry Werth, Random House, 400 pp., $27 In late Fall 1882, 200 side-burned alpha males of the proto-capitalistic era gathered at Manhattan Island’s premier watering hole to feed on saddleback duck and lionize Herbert Spencer. Spencer aimed to systematize all …
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