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Banquet at Delmonico's: The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America   Barry Werth
Engaging and informative intellectual history of the general adoption of the concept of Spencer’s notion of “the survival of the fittest” in the United States. Follows the lives and intellectual development of the eminent thinkers and personalities who spoke at the late-1882 banquet, as well as Spencer himself. Good history of the period as well as the influence of the concept. Excellent read.