The Mauve Decade Author:Thomas Beer ...Thomas Beer presents the morals, politics, society, and literature of the 1880's and '90s in America -- and dramatizes them all. Among the figures portrayed in these brilliant pages are Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Hanna, Eleanora Duse, Joseph Conrad, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Stanford White, Anna Held, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry George, Osc... more »ar Wilde, and William Graham Sumner.« less