upper classes

Two African-American Harvard professors reflect on the challenge issued by NAACP co-founder W.E.B DuBois to the formally educated, to help and serve the less fortunate of their race. Includes the complete text of DuBois's essay, The Talented Tenth, with his own critique, and biographical information on the influential leader.

Beautiful Undine Spragg from Apex, Kansas, is a social climber. Her society career, marriages, divorces, and conquests are all part of her greed.

Brilliant portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where money counted for less than manners and morals.

Portrays American high society in prose and pictures.

An account of a bygone world of privilege, money, power, and selfindulgence set in monumental mansions and country estates.

Focuses on the lives of thirty-six Americans from 1850 to 1890.