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[Provides] marvelously detailed portraits of the central four [public moralists]. . . . [Butler] excels in identifying the core values that her Gilded Age liberals did passionately defend.--Left History A fascinating transatlantic intellectual and biographical history. The book enhances understanding of the pivotal role of public intellectuals in the formation of a transatlantic liberalism in the long nineteenth century.--Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era A fine, well-researched, and provocative work.--Journal of American History A remarkable work that recovers a lost generation of American intellectuals.--New England Quarterly A secure basis from which historians can and should reconsider their contributions to American thought and society.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Butler's cohort of dead white men turn out to be cosmopolitan critics of American imperialism. . . . Written in lively, accessible language.--The Historian Vindicates the author's argument that bourgeois intellectuals are uniquely suited to bring the advantages of their leaning to vastly larger masses.--American Historical Review

A fine, well-researched, and provocative work.--Journal of American History Vindicates the author's argument that bourgeois intellectuals are uniquely suited to bring the advantages of their leaning to vastly larger masses.--American Historical Review Butler's cohort of dead white men turn out to be cosmopolitan critics of American imperialism. . . . Written in lively, accessible language.--The Historian A fascinating transatlantic intellectual and biographical history. The book enhances understanding of the pivotal role of public intellectuals in the formation of a transatlantic liberalism in the long nineteenth century.--Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era A remarkable work that recovers a lost generation of American intellectuals.--New England Quarterly [Provides] marvelously detailed portraits of the central four [public moralists]. . . . [Butler] excels in identifying the core values that her Gilded Age liberals did passionately defend.--Left History A secure basis from which historians can and should reconsider their contributions to American thought and society.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

A fascinating transatlantic intellectual and biographical history. The book enhances understanding of the pivotal role of public intellectuals in the formation of a transatlantic liberalism in the long nineteenth century. -- Journal of the Gilded Age a

A remarkable work that recovers a lost generation of American intellectuals. <br> -- New England Quarterly

A fascinating transatlantic intellectual and biographical history. The book enhances understanding of the pivotal role of public intellectuals in the formation of a transatlantic liberalism in the long nineteenth century. -- Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

A remarkable work that recovers a lost generation of American intellectuals. <br> -- New England Quarterly

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Leslie Butler is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College.

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