The Mauve Decade: American Life At The End Of The Nineteenth Century

1926. Laced with anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses a witty study of the Gilded Age's last decade-from high society to the closing of the West-bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's presidential election. Contents: The Titaness; Wasted Land; Depravity; Dear Harp; The Unholy Host; The American Magazines; and Figures of Earth. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.