Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture Goldstein Mark L.
Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture Goldstein Mark L. Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. A complex and controversial…
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Before the Gilded Age: W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture Goldstein Mark L.
Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. A complex and controversial character, Corcoran influenced banking and finance, art and American culture, philanthropy, and the nation's capital.Based on extensive archival research, Before the Gilded Age examines the fascinating life of an entrepreneur ahead of his time. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse.
Rockefeller donated vast sums of money, Corcoran gave away most of his fortune and helped shape American philanthropy. A generation before Andrew Carnegie and John D. His dedication to landscaping the emerging National Mall predates plans for New York's Central Park.
Other legacies included cofounding the Riggs Bank and founding the Corcoran Gallery of Art, whose collection has been dispersed among other arts