
"The Mauve Decade" is a sophisticated and wry examination of American life and culture during the final decade of the nineteenth century. Thomas Beer provides a brilliant, impressionistic portrait of the 1890s-a period characterized by a tension between fading Victorian sensibilities...

"The Mauve Decade" is a sophisticated and wry examination of American life and culture during the final decade of the nineteenth century. Thomas Beer provides a brilliant, impressionistic portrait of the 1890s-a period characterized by a tension between fading Victorian sensibilities...