Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index.
Contents
New York, November 8, 1882 -- Cambridge, 1871 -- New Haven, 1872 -- New York, 1873 -- New Haven, 1874 -- Brooklyn, 1875 -- Washington, 1876 -- Baltimore, 1877 -- Brooklyn, 1878 -- French Riviera, 1879 -- Washington, 1880 -- New York, 1881 -- New York, 1882.
Summary
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.
