Tag: Gilded Age
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“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.”― Peter A. Levine
“But you can’t escape from shadows or pain. You only find new ones. It’s better, I think, not to try to escape them at all but to accept that they will be there, and to remember that good things happen, too, even if you can’t always see them.” ― Christina Henry, Looking Glass Victims can be quite…
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“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt.” William Shakespeare
The History of Mistletoe in Pictures Mistletoe is a Parasite and Other Fun Facts Photo courtesy Library of Congress
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The Fabulous Life of Champagne Charlie
Some people live large and don’t ask for permission. Charles Heidsieck. There’s your example. Champagne Charlie, as his adoring American public dubbed him, had drama in his veins like some of us have fear and loathing. His father rode before Napoleon into Russia on a white stallion to take orders for celebratory champagne (someone was…
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“If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.” ~Khalil Gibran
A busy week of guests and more guests ahead. I’ll be back next week!
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“There is a defined gulf Between credit and character If you doubt this, ask any banker; He will advise that character is nice But it is not collateral.” Evan Rhys
http://thegildedageera.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-henry-g-marquand-mansion-new-york.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gurdon_Marquand
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A different kind of engineer: Boss Tweed
“It’s hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed’s system … The Tweed ring at its height was an engineering marvel, strong and solid, strategically deployed to control key power points: the courts, the legislature, the treasury and the ballot box. Its frauds had a grandeur of scale and an elegance of structure: money-laundering, profit…
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“Courage mattered. Loyalty mattered. Honor mattered. Personal Pride mattered. Soldiers, and their culture, defined these as masculine values. The Gilded Age substituted gain for cause and friends for comrades.” Richard White
Charles Francis Adams, despite being considered an authority on the management of railroads couldn’t keep the Union Pacific stable as its president. One of the reasons, according to Richard White in Railroaded, was the boys–the young men too young to have fought in the war seemed “weak, unruly, willful and hard to control.” On July…
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Elias C. Boudinot: “If the competition were not so stiff, Boudinot might be ranked among the great scoundrels of the Gilded Age.” Richard White
So you think all Native Americans were noble? Think again. Some liked Gilded Age corruption as much as the next guy. Richard White says he was dashing (in the Custer kind of way). I say smarmy, but that’s me. Interesting factoids: Elias was a pro-slavery Democrat despite being raised by a New England mother. He…
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