The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons

By Booth Tarkington

  • Release Date: 1918-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
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Description

The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, who derived power not from family names but by "doing things".