The first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist
W. W. Corcoran Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways
in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and
changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse.
A complex and controversial character, Corcoran influenced banking
and finance, art and American culture, philanthropy, and the
nation’s capital. Based on extensive archival research, Before
the Gilded Age examines the fascinating life of an entrepreneur
ahead of his time. A generation before Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller donated vast sums of money, Corcoran gave away most of
his fortune and helped shape American philanthropy. His dedication
to landscaping the emerging National Mall predates plans for New
York’s Central Park. Other legacies included cofounding the Riggs
Bank and founding the Corcoran Gallery of Art, whose collection has
been dispersed among other arts organizations in Washington, DC,
including the National Gallery of Art. Mark L. Goldstein provides a
colorful account of a political chameleon who successfully
transcended political party, geography, and ideology to become one
of the richest and most influential people in the country even as
he navigated such controversies as rumors that he was linked to
plots to kill President Lincoln. Before the Gilded Age also offers
readers a detailed historical perspective on the development of
banking, investing, lobbying, art collecting, and philanthropy.
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