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The history of civil engineering may sound boring, but in David McCullough's hands it is, well, riveting. His award-winning histories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal were preceded by this account of the disastrous dam failure that drowned Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889. Written while the last survivors of the flood were still alive, McCullough's narrative weaves the stories of the town, the wealthy men who owned the dam, and the forces of nature into a seamless whole. His account is unforgettable: "The wave kept on coming straight toward him, heading for the very heart of the city. Stores, houses, trees, everything was going down in front of it, and the closer it came, the bigger it seemed to grow.... The height of the wall of water was at least thirty-six feet at the center.... The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes." A powerful, definitive book, and a tribute to the thousands who died in America's worst inland flood. --Mary Ellen Curtin
Book Description
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal.
Graced by David McCullough's remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Customer Reviews:
Another Excellent Historical Piece by Mccullough.......2007-10-03
Very well researched, excellent narrative. Like Mcculough's other works (on Panama Canal and Truman, for example). The audiobook is well read and does not have a dull moment. Perfect for long trips.
By Far, In my 57 years of life, The Johnstown Flood is the Absolute Best.......2007-08-25
As an avid reader from age 10 to present, having read over a thousand books or more, this it the ABSOLUTE BEST BOOK that I have read. I took the book with me to read during our summer vacation in Potter County, PA where my brother-in-law is President of a hunting cabin. This is located perhaps 100+ miles away, so I decided it was the 1st book that I would read during the week of 8/11 to 8/18, 2007.
Mr. McCullough must have boundless energy, a great I.Q., and a patient intensity of research ability,for there is tremendous details written within. Example: after all the mass of houses,trees,dead horses,human corpses,and anything else that you can imagine, washed down and jammed up at the large stone bridge west of Johnstown and lodged there, after round the clock efforts of all types including a large locomotive trying to budge the jam loose - and failed, it was finally set free to wash down the Conemaugh River by a tremendously huge charge of dynamite. Approximately 8 days later in a small town along this river, a live baby with a birthmark on its neck was pulled from the cradle it was carried in along the river. Long story made short - the baby was eventually recovered by her mother, a survivor of the flood, by identfying the birthmark! Numerous such incidents amazed me, and despite the lure of taking a hike in the mountains or fishing in a native trout stream nearby, I stayed on the open deck of the cabin and read on and on. I could not put the book down.
Everybody needs to read this book. I was reminded of the lifestyle of one generation to the next and how the millionaires who built the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were ultimately responsible for this devasting flood. And if you do read this book, you might find yourself taking on a new perspective of life.
Please don't fail to read it. You also will include it in your list of alltime greatest books. Buy it immediatately!!
Very interesting book.......2007-07-24
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. David McCullough has a gift for writing history through focusing on individuals involved in the events. The author writes about specific people, well-known and unknown, for whom the flood changed (or ended) their lives and lets us into their lives and homes through his vivid descriptions and impecable research. What a tragic, preventable event.
Excellent History of Events Prior, During, and After the Johnstown Flood.......2007-07-16
In ten minutes time, a flood hit the Johnstown area in 1889, killing over 2,000 people, making it the most devastating flood in our history. This is an excellent book of the history, not only the flood itself, but of the events leading to this tragedy, and how Johnstown rebounded.
The water that would ultimately create the flood was from a reservoir the state legislature funded in 1836 to support a canal system idea that ultimately was abandoned. Thus, the dam no longer had its original purpose soon after it was built.
The dam fell to neglect. The dam would found to be defective and did break on a few occasions. Yet, there was little water collected behind the dam on those occasions and any damage was minor. The state legislature faced financial difficulties and approved only intermittent construction on the bridge through 1850. The Pennsylvania Railroad purchased the dam at a discounted price for its right of way. This new owner neglected the bridge.
A group of wealthy people from the Pittsburgh formed the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and bought the dam to turn the dam's lake into a recreational area. Members of this club included Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Fricke. The club began renovating the dam, yet a huge rain destroyed all the previous repairs.
Lumbering operations had removed much timber that would have retained much water from a flood. The water behind the dam pushed the dam away in one big motion. The riverbed was mostly rock. The first large community hit was Woodvale, who lost 314 of its approximate 1,000 population in five minutes. When the flood hit Johnstown, the flood reached at least 34 feet in height (and some estimates are that it may have reached as high as 44 feet).
The book aptly describes of the aftermath of the flood. The press stirred paranoia that ethnic groups were looting the bodies. This later proved to be false. Yet they did not stop mob beatings of members of the accused group. The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was found responsible for the not properly repairing the dam in court, yet the club never paid any damages. Daniel Hastings, who achieved acclaim for his efforts in helping Johnstown rebound, would later be elected Governor. Three babies were born in Johnstown on the day of the flood, and they were given the names Flood Rhodes, Flood Raymond, and Moses Williams.
This is an excellent history of a horrible Pennsylvania disaster. It is written clearly and thoroughly describes the events of that time. This is a fantastic book for people interested in how people handle disasters, how such a flood could ever occur, and in Johnstown area history.
The Very Best True Story.......2007-05-20
It is better than a mystery, a true story told like you were there by an expert of emotional feelings, David McCullough. Exceptional and David's first book.
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2005 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Winner of Best Interactive Sideline category!
Heralding archetypal elements of traditional Tarot, The Gilded Tarot is teeming with shimmering, classic imagery. High priestesses in flowing robes, wise emperors, knights on majestic steeds, mystics wielding magical tools, and other intriguing characters from medieval times abound in the Major and Minor Arcana. This richly colored, easy-to-use deck also features standard symbols for the card suits--swords, cups, wands, and pentacles--which provides universal appeal.
This kit also includes The Gilded Tarot Companion, a clear and insightful guidebook to the deck's structure and each card's significance.
Customer Reviews:
I Love This Deck!.......2007-08-06
There is just something about the beauty of this deck! I feel completely connected to it and this is my favorite deck to use in readings. It has also proven itself time and time again very dependable to me.
(As a side note, I also highly recommend Mr. Marchetti's Tarot of Dreams!.)
Another craptacular deck from Lllewelyn.......2007-07-28
All I ever hear about this deck is how beautiful it is and blah blah blah. Please. This is just another RWS clone. Great for beginners, but not for people who are looking to add something more original to their Tarot collections.
The overall artwork is okay, but my biggest beef is with some of the minors with people being depicted in it (esp. the court cards). This is a CG deck, right? While the Majors are well put together, some of the faces on the characters in the minors do not look like they've been digitally rendered. In some cases they look like they've been cut and pasted onto the bodies. I find that rather half-@$$ed. If you're going to make a CG deck with digitally rendered people, why not go the whole way?
I stear clear of Llewelyn's stuff (with the exception of some of the decks from Lo Scarabeo) because they seem to produce a lot of products that are either rehash the same crap from most other books or have no meaning whatsoever. Buyer beware.
Visually pleasing but lacks depth.......2007-07-16
I bought this deck because I was drawn to the beautiful images. However I don't use it for a few reasons. One being that although it is very attractive, I don't feel I am learning from it and it doesn't encourage my intuition. Secondly, the cards are quite flimsy and small compared with the other decks I have (Crowley Thoth, Robin Hood and Mythic Tarot) and slide out of my hands very easily. So all in all it is a nice addition to my collection from the artistic standpoint but I prefer the other decks I own.
Awesome deck!.......2007-06-29
This is my favorite tarot cards deck. The cards are just beautiful and a joy to look at and read. I am an intermediate reader and I only read for myself. I own several decks among the Tarot of Marseilles, the Legend deck, Lover's Tarot and the Robin Wood deck but I get the most amazing accurate readings from the Gilded Tarot deck.
I do not use the book that came with the deck. For explanations and to read my readings I use the book Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Luis. These two combined along with my intuition work great for me.
Beautiful.......2007-05-09
These cards are beautifully rendered and very richly colored. Being a beginner in the art of Tarot, I find them to be fairly intuitive to read as opposed to some decks that are just plain out there.
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- A Great Woman Artist
- Good story, good art
- Where's the beef?
- Excellent Cecilia Beaux Monograph
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Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age
Alice A. Carter
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Book Description
“Miss Beaux is not only the greatest woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.”
―William Merritt Chase, 1899
Author Alice A. Carter expertly traces Cecilia Beaux’s fascinating and unconventional life, from her privileged Philadelphia childhood to her successful penetration into the male-dominated inner circle of the art world of Paris, Philadelphia, and New York. Carter reveals how Beaux’s passion for her work and her headstrong spirit enabled her to achieve professional success unrivaled by any other female artist―and the personal price she paid for it.
Born in Philadelphia in 1855, Cecilia Beaux pursued an artistic career with the same zeal as her male peers, and by the turn of the century she had established an international reputation and exhibited regularly. She worked with eminent artists of her day, including Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent, and in 1895 she became the first full-time female faculty member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
This is the first illustrated biography of Beaux’s work, showcasing more than 150 paintings and drawings, including her best known high-style portrait commissions of such notable figures as Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Georges Clemenceau, as well as later landscapes and still-life compositions. Much of this work has rarely been seen.
Customer Reviews:
A Great Woman Artist.......2007-09-13
I joined the Cecilia Beaux Society,Portrait Society of America, and I was interested in reading her life story and seeing some of her many paintings. This book has been an inspiration to me as an artist, and last week-end I was able to visit her exibition at the High Museum , in Atlanta, Ga.
What a thrill, and even more so because I had this book. The gift shop had some other books about her,but they did not compare with this copy.
As you can see I have given it 5 stars, as I would recommend it to any artist interested in her style of painting.
Good story, good art.......2006-08-21
Aside a wide range of reproductions of Beaux's work, this book also contains a compelling narrative arc. Rarely do you see such well-done storytelling in an artist's biography. The author doesn't simply rehash data in order to paint a portrait of Beaux, she uses beautiful images and diary excerpts to portray Beaux arduous rise to prominence. In reading this book, it becomes clear that despite the sheer brilliance of Beaux's artwork, the artist was full of self-doubt like the rest of us. The author, Carter, makes her subject gloriously human, and this makes for a good read.
Where's the beef?.......2006-08-20
This book left me hungry for more! Yes, there are some nice reproductions. However, the text is boring and lacking in content. I had the notion that the author simply culled insignificant passages from the artist's personal diary, focusing on interpersonal relationships with family and friends, and a few notable artists of her day. Unfortunately, the story reveals little about Beaux's deeper concerns as an artist.
If you're looking for some insight into the artist's particular philosophy of art, or of Beaux's creative issues and processes, and her motivation to paint, sadly, you won't find it here.
Given the fact that so little is in print about this great artist, it's probably worth a read ... but borrow it.
Excellent Cecilia Beaux Monograph.......2006-07-20
This well written book covers the life and work of Cecilia Beaux. All of her best know works are well illustrated with good color accuracy. The text is highly readable and provides solid insight to the artist's aesthetic goals and struggles. If Cecilia Beaux is of interest to you, this book is likely your best bet.
Finally.......2006-02-28
Until now there was not much in print about Cecilia Beaux. At least there was not much printed in full color of her work. This book is well written and it has many full color, quality printed, plates of her work to view and study. I was thrilled to find it. Thank you Alice Carter for putting this book and these images out into the world.
Book Description
In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan—Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain—vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age.
Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior.
Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite detail, taking readers from the 1890s to the Roaring Twenties in a combination of biography, history, architectural appreciation, and pure reading pleasure.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent introduction to "the 400", the Astors, and the rise of the grand hotels.......2006-11-30
This book is an excellent introduction to the history of "the 400" (or "the Four Hundred") and the Astor family for the many people who seek such information. Many people ask me for more information about "the 400" because my novel, "Chasing the 400", deals with the African American community's social interpretation of "the 400" during the 1950's. At that time, "the 400" was a term that was used to characterize the Black Bourgeoisie, the same as the term was used to characterize the New York Gilded Age social elite.
I disagree with Kaplan that people largely seemed to not care about "the 400" after Carolyn Astor's death or disappearance from prominence in New York society. "The 400" as the social elite lived on long after Carolyn Astor's grand entertaining, and many groups of people patterned their social groups after Mrs. Astor's exclusivity. In my novel, I explain "the 400" in New York society and in 1950s Philadelphia's Black Bourgeoisie this way: "The women displayed as colored society were the ladies of 'the 400', an exclusive, informal collection of Philadelphia's black bourgeoise, the talented tenth, the doctors, lawyers and other successful colored businessmen and their wives. This exclusive group patterned themselves after "the Four Hundred", the phrase coined in the late 1800's by New York socialite Mrs. William Astor and her friends to symbolize upper crust society--the truly worthy 400 people who could fit into the ballroom of Mrs. Astor's New York home. Like Mrs. Astor's Four Hundred, Philadelphia's colored 400 attended a seemingly endless round of balls, lunches, fashion shows and cocktail soirees. Mrs. Donald Butcher, given name Harriet, ruled the colored 400 which, in reality, had only about 50 people who were truly worthy. Donald Butcher made a fortune operating the largest colored funeral home in Philadelphia, and Harriet made a life running colored society."
More information about groups that might be considered to be the modern day "Four Hundred" in the African American community, such as The Links, Jack & Jill and Sigma Pi Phi--the Boule, and "Chasing the 400" can be found on my Amazon page. Malcom X, in "The Autobiography of Malcom X", also talks about "the 400" in Boston's African American community.
Kaplan's discussion of how and why the Astor's concieved and built New York's grandest hotels is also fascinating. We take the grand hotel for granted today, but Kaplan explains how such hotels were truly revolutionary and transformed society at that time. Modern day real estate investors might find inspiration in Kaplan's detailed discussions of how the Astors used real estate to build their great wealth, working on one deal after another, not satisfied with more wealth than most of us could even imagine.
Hotel Mania.......2006-11-27
This book, while initially giving the impression of being a recounting of the Astor family, actually turns into a history of hotels in New York City built by wealthy people. As a biography it was well done, but as a history of the hotels it is extremely interesting. There are some asides about the inter-family feuds of the Astors, and it mentions, in passing, the death of John Jacob IV on the Titanic (perhaps more should have been said about this). To those interested in the early history of New York, and its famous hotels, this is required reading!
Slim volume promises much delivers little .......2006-09-05
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan is a bit of a disappointment. From the title and description, I was looking for a biography of the Astor family along with a taste of history about the times they lived in. While there is some brief biographical information in the book, much of it is focused on the hotels they (and others) built. Pages are allotted to the Palmer House in Chicago (which they didn't build), but far less to John Jacob Astor's death on the Titanic. His scandalous divorce and marriage to a much younger woman are also glossed over. His uncle William Waldorf Astor's life is covered in far greater detail, but even he doesn't get full coverage. Gossipy bits and pieces of the times are dropped here and there. Kaplan goes overboard in quoting Henry James in his eloquence about the beauty of hotels. There are pages of quotes from James, often repeated. The book meanders and repeats itself as well. I suppose not much should be expected from such a slim volume, but I was hoping for more.
Mostly history.......2006-08-09
Book was not what I expected. Does not delve into characters,but more or less who begot who and rivalries, hotel building, and so on. If you're looking for character development or revelation, this is not what you want.
Lacks Focus.......2006-08-03
The Astors are an iconic American family, rising from immigrant roots to great wealth and aristocratic pretensions, undermined by their own social ambition and self-imposed isolation and finally, in later generations, fading from economic and social prominence. (104 year-old Brooke Astor, the widow of Vincent, is the last multi-millionaire Astor, and will leave no Astor heirs.) Yet this book purports to be, not about the Astors, but about the great hotels that they conceived and built, including such landmarks as the old Waldorf-Astoria, The Astor and the St. Regis. As such, the book lacks focus and is poorly integrated; it's not quite a bio of the Astors, since it's character portraits are superficial, but it's not really about the great hotels either, because it limits that story to the role played by the Astors. The result is disjointed and, occasionally, boring. This author knows alot about the Astors and would have done better to write a straightforward biography or family history.
Book Description
Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search that carries her from tenement to brothel to prison—as her story interweaves with those of some of the epoch's most notorious figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; sexual freedom activist Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president; and Anthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose censorship laws are still on the books.
In the tradition of her bestselling World War II epic Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy once again re-creates a turbulent period in American history and explores changing attitudes in a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.
Customer Reviews:
Quasi-Fictitious, Real Life Characters.......2007-08-08
Utterly fascinating. An exceptional book.
Weaves truth with fiction, making for a very informative, highly readable historical account of those years (in New York) right after the Civil War, and into Reconstruction (although Reconstruction is not discussed an any great length here, the well-read individual who pursues her/his interest in the Civil War and its aftermath may find some points of comparison and contrast when comparing the Reconstruction years in New York City with those in the South).
This narrative contains vivid descriptions of this period of immigration of millions of individuals who endured lives of varying degrees of poverty (much of it abject) and livelihoods of varying degrees on the streets of New York, some of it good -- much of it harsh, AND inventive.
It also brings to the fore the "Robber Barons" and the elite Rich who raced through Central Park and visited their madams and houses of prostitution -- and Women's Suffrage; initially in the background, then racing to the forefront, with varying degrees of success with setbacks, division, and imprisonment -- struggling along, then gathering speed and sureness, then splitting along divided lines, yet still gaining momentum.
And all through this narrative one finds Anthony Comstock, his notorious ways, and the Comstock Laws, meddling in and ruining the lives of many honest and dishonest shopkeepers and women trying to earn their daily bread by making condoms or selling or distributing birth control pamphlets.
The descriptions of the street gangs, the dirt and squalor, the honest individuals trying to make a living, the Woodhull sisters and their cunning ability to reach the hearts and minds and purses of those in power, the various personalities inhabiting the alleys and shacks, the 5th Avenue "castles" and whorehouses -- and then the fictional but highly possible life and quests of Freydeh and her orphans -- keeps the reader spellbound.
There is a wealth of information here about Women's Suffrage in the early days; initially Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony - two opposites who work together nonetheless, as major agents for change and reform, AND the Woodhull sisters, advocates of Free Love -- who started the first successful stockbrokerage run by women (scans of their newsletters can be found on the Internet) who then joined forces for a while with those two formidable suffragettes, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony (and caused a scandal among the other Suffragettes because of their Free Love stance).
I consider this book not only a great "read", but also fertile grounds and a springboard for further research into Women's Suffrage and the immigrant experience in New York City in that period immediately after the Civil War.
Terrific Read.......2007-07-05
Most exciting historical novel I've read in ages, set in an unusual time, just after the Civil War. It follows several very different people, including the leading "first wave" feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Victoria Woodhull, along with the puritannical moral campaigner Anthony Comstock, and a struggling recent Jewish immigrant and her family. I could hardly put the book down as it ranged from one group of characters to another, and I found it just delicious. Other reviewers have felt that the dialogue was wooden, but it didn't bother me in the least, and it's an easy read, not a sociology text. It's so important to be reminded how bad life was for women and how hard women had to fight to change the laws and society. Well-written and of interest to feminists, those interested in the 19th century spiritualist movement, and the experiences of immigrants in New York City.
Great Read -Women Lives in Post-Civil War Times.......2007-05-29
I really enjoyed reading Sex Wars. Many of the characters were real people (especially women) fighting to live out their goals and dreams in the 1870's and 1880's. When I finished the book I had to immediately look up the real life stories of Victoria Woodhull (notorious free love speaker, stockbroker and medium), Anthony Comstock (fighter of profanity who goes too far), Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Vanderbilt. The fictional character of Freydah was great too. She really made me imagine what it would be like to be an immigrant back in the late 1800's -as a woman who lost her spouse, as a non native speaker, without spousal support, without money, and without laws protecting her from harm and unfairness, and as someone who had to work tirelessly just to make it and fight against prejudice and the social grain. -How different life was for the single woman and the married woman. This book truly highlights this.
I liked the structure of the book and found it suspenseful. Each chapter was from a different character's point of view and would then rotate back to each character again chapter by chapter. This book helped me to see a glimpse of what America was like during this time period. It helps one see how the events and attitudes of the past frame and contribute to the politics and attitudes that we have today -especially concerning women. It is so interesting to think about the people who come before us. The only things I found not so great: I felt Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who are incredible women to me could have been written about a little more interestingly.
was ok.......2007-01-10
not what i expected as far as the story goes, but in excellent condition
Portrays the zest of a time of great change!.......2006-04-21
Piercy paints a portrait of women who were intelligent and gutsy in a time that did not reward those qualities in women. Of course we don't hear much about them now because history under-reports the feats of women. The fact that these women thought for themselves and led innovative lives was amazing considering the oppression that was the norm.
Some of the characters in this story were historic figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Comstock. Others were lesser known figures such as the psychic turned candidate for president Victoria Woodhull. I have to admit I was more interested in Woodhull and some of the fictional characters. It really didn't work to have the fictional and non-fictional characters together. I also didn't like the numerous head changes--I wanted to stick with the one story and see what happened. With so much shifting from on story to another I did not attach to or get to know any of the characters.
A really interesting book despite some flaws and well worth a read. It portrays the zest of a time of great change in American history.
Book Description
On a November day in 1895, crowds of curious sightseers gathered outside St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York, intent on spotting a small dapper bridegroom whom they knew to be a great English aristocrat awaiting his bride-to-be. When she arrived, twenty minutes late, anyone who caught a glimpse beneath Consuelo Vanderbilt's veil would have seen that her face was swollen from crying.
When Consuelo's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society. She was adamant that her daughter should make a grand marriage, and the underfunded Duke of Marlborough was just the thing. It didn't matter that Consuelo loved someone else; as Alva once told her, "I don't ask you to think, I do the thinking, you do as you're told."
However, the story of Consuelo and Alva is not simply one of the emptiness of wealth, of the glamour of the Gilded Age, and of enterprising social ambition. This is a fascinating account of how two women struggled to break free from the deeply materialistic world into which they were born, taking up the fight for female equality. Consuelo threw herself into good works; Winston Churchill encouraged her to make her first public speech, and her social and political campaigns proved an antidote to loneliness. Alva embraced the militant suffragette movement in America, helping to bring the fight for the vote to its triumphant conclusion and campaigning vehemently for women's rights until she died. In this brilliant and engrossing book, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart suggests that behind the most famous transatlantic marriage of all lies an extraordinary tale of the quest for female power.
Customer Reviews:
Consuelo and Alva.......2007-07-12
Fascinating story well presented. This well-researched book has clarified several misconceptions about the Consuelo and Alva story.
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age.......2007-01-04
I liked the book, some of what the author had placed in her book was from other books.
Fascinating Glimpse Into Two Lives.......2006-12-20
I didn't read this book for a while after I bought it, as I found its heft daunting. However, once I started it, I was totally absorbed. Mackenzie Stuart combines two stories in one. I refer not to the stories of the mother and daughter, but the combination of describing lifestyles that seem almost medieval and then telling the story of the women's suffrage movements in the US and UK from Alva and Consuelo's vantage points.
I can't speak to the few factual errors pointed out by one of the earlier reviewers. However, as for the subejct-verb error cited, although the phrase is incorrect in American usage, I believe it is correct in British usage.
I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in 20th-century social (in both senses of the word) history in the US and UK.
Marvelous subjects, excellent research.......2006-09-20
I'll admit to a certain partiality towards the history of the American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, subsequently the first wife of the 9th Duke of Marlborough.
Growing up on Long Island as I did, where her parents had their original summer estate, the story of Consuelo's marriage to the Duke was well-known. Some referred to her bethrothal as a sale, a fabulously wealthy American girl traded off to be the bride of a titled Englishman who was close to destitute.
On a personal basis, my family was among the founders of the incorporated country club which, decades later, bought Consuelo's own Long Island estate; I married my first husband in Consuelo's beautiful English-style garden. Therefore, while I feel no sense of commonality with her, I do feel a connection.
Having said this, it will be no surprise that I have read most of the biographies and autobiographies of Consuelo and her mother, Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont. From this vantage point, author Amanda Mackenzie Stuart has done an excellent job in her book, CONSUELO AND ALVA VANDERBILT: THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER AND A MOTHER IN THE GILDED AGE. Not even Consuelo's own autobiography gave as clear a sense of her humanity as Stuart does here; similarly, none of the books about Alva and her dedication to the women's suffrage movement gives as good a picture of that lady herself.
Without question, these were two extraordinary women, sharing at least three stories. In fact, three stories may have been one story too many for easy integration into a combined biography that is manageable in scope.
The prose used by the author, while adequate, never crosses that important line to engaging. While the subject always is interesting, the book sometimes fails to be.
There are a number of niggardly flaws, admittedly minor at best, yet the quantity of these flaws, in such a serious work, disrupt the flow of the history. And I cannot understand why the foreign phrases with which the book is peppered never are translated. Surely not every reader of an English-language publication can be presumed to talk French.
Alva was a complex woman; by modern standards, probably one who was disturbed. In the simpler times when she ruled society, money easily smoothed over one's glaring peculiarities.
After the death of her second husband, she lost herself in the suffrage movement. That the cause was important and worthwhile, there is no doubt. This importance does not explain Alva's allegiance to it, however, which almost bordered fanaticism. Nor does this explain her self-centered vision of a movement that, ultimately, impacted the rights of women across the globe.
Her daughter seems to have been a kinder, more generous, personality, just plain nicer all around. Consuelo obviously had the greater capacity to love and be loved. Blessed with a very long life, she had close and loving relationships with friends, servants and, most importantly, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The part of the book about the suffrage movement does not sustain the pacing of the biographical sections, even though the juxtapositioning of the gilded age with the disenfranchised lower classes does provide food for thought.
Overall, this remains a work of the highest level of scholarship.
Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter & Mother in the Gilded Age.......2006-06-07
I found this book to be interesting overall, but somewhat laborious to read at times. I mistakenly thought this book was about the Vanderbilt twins' older sister, but after purchasing the book, I discovered that it is about another Consuelo Vanderbilt, from a different branch of the family. Nonetheless, I found it interesting because I'm fascintated by extreme wealth and the families who have connections to European royalty. However, this book focuses on the feminist roles that both Gloria and her mother, Alva assumed in their lives and this is not a subject which particularly interests me. Therefore, it was tough going for me at times and I had to force myself to finish the book. But this is just my own taste. I'm sure others might think differently about this book.
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Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of property on the design of development of the entire inland United States to this date. Although focused on Chicago and the U.S., the general lessons it teaches are of global significance, and a rich source of metaphors for the ways in which colonization of physical space operates differently from, and similarly to, colonization of cyberspace. This is a compelling, wise, thorough--and thoroughly accessible--masterpiece of history writ large. Very Highest Recommendation.
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A review from an armchair historian........2006-08-13
There are going to be other reviewers who can provide more erudite reviews-- reviews better grounded in the study of cities or economic history. I am nothing more than an average reader who enjoys non-fiction.
First of all, potential readers should be aware that this is an econonomic history. It follows flows of goods and capital rather than following the lives and careers of the men and women of Chicago. I knew what to expect, but for people looking for a more standard history of Chicago this may make Nature's Metropolis difficult to engage.
I really enjoyed reading the book. It stretched my understanding of the economic growth of cities and raised issues that I had not considered about the role of the city *in* nature (not as opposed to nature). The examination of elements that made Chicago into both a city and The City was fascinating. The chapters tracing grain, lumber and meat as goods were clearly written and underscored the central theses.
I guess it goes without saying that Nature's Metropolis is far from a light read, but that does not make it less rewarding. As someone who does not have a background in history, I only longingly wished that the bibliography had been annotated to help support further reading.
Distinctive and valuable history of urban growth & development.......2006-04-21
This is a very distinctive, well researched and argued book about how Chicago developed. Starting with a standard model of Urban Economics - the von Thunen model of central place theory- the author quickly moves beyond it. The distinctive contribution of his book is Cronon's emphasis on how the roots of Chicago's remarkable development lay in the "soil" of its surrounding hinterlands. He carries this argument further by examining how the transportation and communication revolutions of the 19th century - the railroad and the telegraph - created unique advanatages for Chicago relative to other competitive metropolitan areas (such as St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee) and finally, how in turn, new metropolitan areas (such as KC, Omaha) arose to steal aways Chicago's dominance.
As other reviewers have noted, the book offers really fascinating, detailed discussions and original research on - for example - the grain and lumber industries as well as capital flows in the midwestern US creatively using court records on corporate failures to track the flow of investments.
This books contains a rich lode of intellectual wealth and it is well worth the effort to mine it.
Solid on Both Facts and Theory.......2004-01-07
Been dying to read this book for at least six months. Finally found it at a used book store for six bucks! Huzzah!
Having now read the book, I probably would have shelled out for it new or used at the 10+ bucks it commands here on Amazon. The 18 reviews below indicates that this is a fairly popular work. That's more then three times the reviews of the other history books I've checked out on Amazon.
Since the other reviews are substantial, I won't comment much, except to say that while several reviewers have commented on the role of "first" and "second" nature in this book, I didn't see anybody mentioning his use of "Central Place Theory", which was apparently developed by German theorists in the 1800's. He also doesn't discuss Lewis Mumford at all, even though he cites to that author in the bibliography.
I thought this book made an interesting contrast with "Imperial San Francisco", another book about the development of a western city. I was hoping Cronon would include more information about the "flow of capital" between Chicago and the FAR west, rather then focusing so intently on Chicago's immediate hinterland.
Cronon chose to focus on a description of the processes which led to the creation of Chicago. It might have been interesting to look at the ways in which the interests of wealthy individuals tracked across various industries and time. A point made in "Industrial San Francisco" was that the oligarch's who made money in mining gradually "cleansed" their money through the purchase of utilities and media firms(newspapers). Did something similar occur in Chicago? I suspect so, but Cronon's treatment of the newspaper/media industry is largely descriptive.
Great for readers interested in history, ecology, economics.......2003-11-21
I remember, many years ago, standing next to an Illinois corn field at the intersection 212th and Cicero and wondering how Chicago's street grid system had worked its way so far into the country side. What in the world did this corn field and the intersection of State and Madison in downtown Chicago have to do with each other? This book explained it to me along the economic history of Chicago -- a history that went a lot farther in explaining the citys size, influence, and even existence than the biographies Marshal Field, Potter Palmer, the Colonel, and the rest.
Great read.
Best 'textbook' ever.......2003-02-09
This was the best book I've ever had assigned in a class. It was part of the assigned readings for a Princeton University course "History of the American West". Perhaps the context of the class helped to make the book, but it is still well written and seems to strike a good balance between a historical view and an economic view of the story it tells.
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The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, is a political roman a clef--a direct and caustic attack on government, politicians, and big business in Post-Civil War America. It is the book that gave an era its name. Published in 1873, the first year of the second scandal-ridden
Grant administration, it is the first novel of consequence about Washington in all of American writing, as Ward Just notes in his Introduction. The Gilded Age "gives Washington the aspect of a clumsy frontier town of ludicrous aspirations, populated mainly by fools, racketeers, opportunists, and
parvenus, most of them members of the United States Congress," Just writes. The Gilded Age trains its satire on corruption in politics, business and the courts; "As Twain famously said, there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress, and the great triumph of The Gilded Age is
that we are given chapter and verse on how the thievery is done." Just notes that readers will see for themselves whether Twain and Warner's subtitle for The Gilded Age--"A Tale of To-Day"--is still accurate.
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The elders of the party were not long in discovering the fact, which almost all travelers to the west soon find out; that the water was poor. It must have been by a lucky premonition of this that they all had brandy flasks with which to qualify the water of the country; and it was no doubt from an uneasy feeling of the danger of being poisoned that they kept experimenting, mixing a little of the dangerous and changing fluid, as they passed along.
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Witty assessment of post-Civil War industry and politics. A classic........2007-06-14
Witty, engaging and expertly crafted, The Gilded Age reveals Twain's and Warner's cynicism of American business practices (rampant, unrestrained speculation) and Washington politics post-Civil War. For the most part, the main characters are rather flawed. The sometimes loathsome sometimes loveable Col. Eschol Sellers is a well-meaning huckster. Many of the figures on the periphery are out-and-out crooks, dishonest, slimy sorts that would do or say anything for a buck. The only winner in the end is Philip Sterling, the only character willing to work hard to make an honest fortune.
Some critics have said that this book was Twain's answer to Ben Franklin's elevation of the so-called Protestant work ethic and something of a critique of American capitalism. That conclusion, in my view, is misguided. While Twain's and Warner's contempt of corruption and dishonest business dealings is glaringly obvious from the way the stories are told, they quite as obviously seem to honor those who truly earned their fortunes or made something of themselves by honest, productive effort. Sterling is an example of that. That is the essence of the Protestant work ethic.
Social commentary aside, like Twain's other work, The Gilded Age is terribly funny. About every other page, one of his brilliant witicisms will make you laugh out loud, a situation that can be a bit awkward when reading the book in public.
"For men are subject to their own impulses as soon as they have parted company with reason".......2006-10-09
Literary legend has it that Twain and Warner's wives had prompted these two authors to work together on The Gilded Age. Some versions of the story have it a dinner party challenge-- where the two men were dared to work together in order to produce a novel better than the popular fiction that their wives were reading. Whatever the true cause, it is an interesting experiment. The Gilded Age is a book worth reading, particularly if you are interested in the history or the popular novels of the 1870s.
The story follows the fortune of the good but silly Hawkins family and their children, both biological and adopted. The Hawkins family is chiefly concerned with the idea of making their fortune, and invest a huge amount of hope and trust in their twin poles of "the Tennesee Land" and the schemes of their family friend, Colonel Beriah Sellers.
The plot is extremely melodramatic, much in keeping with popular fiction of the day. Hidden identities, lost parents, ruined women and handsome cads populate the storyline. Mixed in with this is the classic Twain "pen warmed up in Hell"-- he takes on the corruption of the era, pointing his venom at Congress, the railroad, and at the "reconstruction efforts" theoretically designed to improve conditions in the south while actually being little more then efforts to line pockets, thinly disguised.
It is occasionally an uneven ride. The melodramatic plot and characters are often a very odd fit with the vicious,dry and funny commentary that is made about corruption and public morals. I think it is more enjoyable if you have had exposure to contemporary writers such as Mary Jane Holmes. I kept thinking of this as The English Orphans on crack to try to keep the context in mind.
Despite the uneven quality, I really enjoyed the book. The political commentary may miss on some of the specific scandals, but the general points should still be pointy enough to make current politicians wince. And, like most Twain efforts (even a co-authored book like this one) it is often riotously funny.
The introduction to the Penguin edition claims that the Gilded Age will never be forgotten for three reasons:
-- its association with Mark Twain
-- the accomplishment of having given a title to a political era
-- its status as a shockingly accurate mirror of period corruption
I will not argue with that analysis.
Highly recommmended. Kudos to the Penguin Classic edition for the genuinely helpful introduction by Louis J. Budd and the useful notes and appendices at the back of the book.
Let's Do A Deal.......2004-05-25
"The Gilded Age" is a story of corruption and get-rich-quick schemes in the USA after the Civil War. The fulcrum of the book is the Hawkins family, and in particular Laura - a Washington lobbyist whose personal life is deeply flawed. But beyond the Hawkins family, Twain and Warner introduce a cast of characters all of whom have a stake in the expanding US economy (through more or less shady dealing) or in the deep corruption of the political system. It is as if the whole economy was one great poker game, with most of the players cheating shamelessly.
At times "The Gilded Age" is a very uneven novel, perhaps to be expected in a collaborative work. The early chapters especially have a very disjointed feel: time and location leap about too much, the narrative creaks. It was as if the authors had not yet sorted out who the main characters were to be, nor where the majority of the action was to take place. Indeed, as the novel develops, the main scene changes from the mid-West to Washington DC. Once this shift has taken place, the novel becomes more settled, with more scope for satire and character development.
How effective is the novel? Well, many of the references and allusions have lost their impact due to the passage of time, and the limitations of the collaborative nature of the book (as mentioned above) limit rather than help. I prefer Gore Vidal's "American Saga" novels, but in its favour "The Gilded Age" (perhaps due to its proximity to events) does have a feel of authenticity, and does provide another warning that pursuit of money and personal gain to the exclusion of other societal values is highly damaging.
G Rodgers
Greed.......2004-02-18
The post-Civil War years were a time of rapid industrialization in America, aided and abetted by burgeoning plans to build a transcontinental railroad. Many people saw an opportunity to get a piece of the action, to speculate with family savings, the little that there were, in hopes of making millions of dollars in return. Investing in coal mining was one example. It is against this background that _The Gilded Age_ takes place.
Many in Congress saw an opportunity to support various projects that were supposedly for the public good, e.g. building a university for the newly freed slaves upon land, located in Tenneesee, bequeathed by a family patriarch to his children. These schemes were also meant to line many people's pockets. The novel's Senator Dilworthy supports various liberal causes and "family values," i.e. Sunday school education, but is also thoroughly corrupt.
_The Gilded Age_ is meant to be a morality tale where everyone receives his just deserts: the evil or those just plain greedy are punished, including a vengence seeking young woman deeply wronged by her married lover, and the good and the conscientious are rewarded. While the book occasionally gets bogged down in the scandalous details of this young woman's love life, _The Gilded Age_ is often an interesting, lively and educational glance into the manners of 1870s America.
A Tale of Today.......2001-07-17
The literary criticism you can get from the Oxford edition (check your local library); the commentary is thorough (which parts did Twain write? which parts Warner?) and informative. My reasons for recommending this book have nothing to do with its literary value (spotty) and everything to do with its subtitle. Every now and then an old book teaches us that much of what we take to be modern and sophisticated is truly old hat. One of the best descriptions of the Cold War was written by Thucydides, and one of the best depictions of the go go dot.com economy was written by Twain. Substitute web sites for depots and bandwidth for rails and the conversations in this book could have been overhead on cel phones in San Jose. IPO's and bubbles are not twenty-first century innovations: as Twain shows us,it may be possible to get rich from hard work, but it's more tempting to get rich by looting the pockets of the uninformed. Senator Dilworthy's dedication to pork evokes Byrd, and we learn lecherous behavior in Congress didn't start with Condit. An entertaining validation of Ecclesiates: there truly is nothing new under the sun.
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Useful resource for Herter furniture research.......1998-07-31
This book is a compendium of information related to late 19th century furniture makers. Photographs and references are essential to research of the topic. Particularly helpful is the chronology at end of book. Well-researched and photographed.
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John Armstrong Chanler—known as Archie to his family—was an heir to the Astor fortune, an eccentric, dashing, and handsome millionaire. Amélie Rives, from a Southern family and the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, was a daring author, a stunning temptress, and a woman ahead of her time. Filled with glamour, mystery, and madness, their love affair and marriage made them the talk of society in the Gilded Age.
Archie and Amélie seemed made for each other—both were passionate, intense, and driven by emotion—but the very things that brought them together would soon draw them apart. Their marriage began with a “secret” wedding that found its way onto the front page of the New York Times, to the dismay of Archie’s relatives and Amélie’s many gentleman friends. To the world, the couple appeared charmed, rich, and famous; they moved in social circles that included Oscar Wilde, Teddy Roosevelt, and Stanford White. But although their love was undeniable, they tormented each other, and their private life was troubled from the start.
They were the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day—a celebrated couple too dramatic and unconventional to last—but their tumultuous story has largely been forgotten. Now, Donna M. Lucey vividly brings to life these extraordinary lovers and their sweeping, tragic romance.
“In the Virginia hunt country
just outside of Charlottesville, where I live, the older people still tell stories of a strange couple who died some two generations ago. The stories involve ghosts, the mysterious burning of a church, a murder at a millionaire’s house, a sensational lunacy trial, and a beautiful, scantily clad young woman prowling her gardens at night as if she were searching for something or someone—or trying to walk off the effects of the morphine that was deranging her. I was inclined to dismiss all of this as tall tales Virginians love to spin out; but when I looked into these yarns I found proof that they were true. . . .”
—Donna M. Lucey on Archie and Amé
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Interesting story.......2007-09-17
This is a book about real people that lived in the mid to late 1880s into the 1900's. ARchie is from the wealthy Astor family with tons of money and marries a woman from the south that has respect but no money since the civil war ruined them. She is a writer of "scandalous books" for that time. She is very exotic and Archie is obsessed with her. She dumps him and marries a Russian prince that has no money and Archie continues to support her and her family. His family turns on him and he actually serves 4 years in a rich person's nut house. It gives you a real taste of how "those people" lived during that time period. I love reading books about real people in the past, especially those that were really rich. A nice love story but kind of sad too.
Archie and Amelie by Donna M. Lucey.......2007-02-21
Loved this book, especially since I knew nothing about Archie and Amelie as my readings on the Astors deals primarily with the founding fathers ... they were not right for each other and despite all their respective intellects - - - something was wrong with what appeared to be a woman in the relationship and Amelie used Archie mercilessly, as she did with everybody else! At the end she got what she put into her life.
Love and madness doesn't go far enough.......2007-01-12
This book has many interesting things to say about the lives of John Armstrong Chanler, the heir of the Astor fortune, and his lover/wife Ameile Rives, but I couldn't help feeling like I was reading someone's college thesis paper. I think it could have been edited into a smaller novella, or broadened to read more like historical fiction.
compelling read.......2007-01-06
Dual biography that captures the gilded age as it tells a compelling tale of two lovers and their madness and eccentricities intertwined with their families and wealth. It's a great portrait of the times. Very engaging read.
very interesting book.......2007-01-03
very complex relationship
that archie and amelie had
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