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National Book Critics Award winner Wiencek (Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves) skims the surface in this study of Gilded Age excesses as exemplified by the lives of a pair of friends: architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Mostly untrained but prodigiously talented, both men rose to success in late 19th-century New York City, at a time when the U.S. was demonstrating a newfound national self-con...Log In or Sign Up to Read More