![]() ![]() In short, millionaires are being made and broken and the city is spreading outward, spurred by more mobility, and the influence of a single family is being diminished with the spread.īut automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect. But the world is changing rapidly, the stock market is full of new opportunities, but fraught with risk there are new inventions everywhere, but it is difficult to sort the ones that will succeed from the ones that won't and you might be tempted to bet that the horse and buggy isn’t going to be usurped by the automobile, much to your own dismay. He is the grandson of a man who has made his own fortune and whose children take the money for granted and spend it. ![]() Written in 1918, is the story of George Amberson Minafer, a pompous, spoiled, arrogant little SOB who you want to smack around the ears, and who inspires that same desire in many of the people he meets. ![]() I am looking forward to the second now that I have sampled the wares. I have two of his novels on my Pulitzer challenge, this one and. Booth Tarkington is one of those names you know, you feel you certainly must have read, but then you realize you never have. This novel was not at all about what I had anticipated it would be, and surprised me in a very good way. ![]()
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