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THE CAPITALIST PO
paul staiti
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138 T H E C A P I T A
Chambers por
what were the
ture, caricature
Ideology
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140 T H E C A P I T A
Hancock, raise
Faneuil Hall, of
tribution to the
in King George
Halls portrait
to include John
cock, both of w
d l t
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142 T H E C A P I T A
figure 79
Charles Burton, Governors Room,
City Hall, ca. 1830. Watercolor,21116 3 in. (Collection of the
New-York Historical Society)
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Jurists, Author s, etc . (1862), and Benson Lossi
of the Signers (1848), Our Countrymen (1855),
Merchants and businessmen, however
early galleries and compendiums of worthi
Laurens, Nicholas Biddle, and Stephen Gir
they stood for their contributions to public
Longacre, and Herring was not thought to
J ff t f t th t h
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trade journal, w
with portrait en
(figure 81), and
merces early e
it publicly artic
In a preface jus
and the Painter
J ti d C
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146 T H E C A P I T A
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in the Chambers membership, turning th
brig ands, and devour ing leviatha ns. A chro
(figure 84), shows a group of well-dressed c
Will iam H. Vanderbilt a nd Cy rus W. Field, b
lic sale run by an auctioneer who looks like U
In addition to caustic caricaturists, dis
fiction reprehensible business characters w
k d d d 23 At th t f th
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148 T H E C A P I T A
Even the ever-o
depravity of th
posed, but in fin
theme was not j
ment of the mo
acts, both perso
Almost all o
h
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150 T H E C A P I T A
the obvious diff
a businessman
intellectual acc
Peales Philade
self-congratula
an outside jur
collections of p
i th d
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Great because they were known chiefly fo
secondarily for good works. As such, their li
attributed to the eighteenth-century mod
enshrined them in a Great Man format, wh
on an artistic convention, but also an ackno
late-nineteenth-century America had now b
interest, and was no longer a paragon of virt
th id f th Ch b t it ll
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152 T H E C A P I T A
theywere entre
gallery of portr
than with the n
tations and wis
image.33 In tha
in the eighteen
such as Joshua
f ff t t
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small private collections or hung in the offi c
Chambers collection was self-consciously
displayed at its headquarters in the geogra
Chambers monumental Great Hall stood o
pantheon of a profession in the nations hist
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Thomas P. Rossiter,
1865. Oil on ca
(Richard H. Jenr
Henry Stanley Todd,
1899. Oil on c
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figure 90
Charles Loring Elliott,James De Peyster
Ogden, 1855. Oil on canvas, 36 29 in.
(Credit Suisse, New York)
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158 T H E C A P I T A
The majority
depict men em
the person porlife. Eastman J
Chamber from
eldest son of th
man in Americ
bl k (fi 93
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160 T H E C A P I T A
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with McGuff ey s Reade rlengthened to inc
severance, and initiative.44 Max Weber, w
Spirit of Capitalism in 1904, at the apex of to explain that alliance between values of r
form of a grand theory. He identified ascet
the calculus of success, but its preconditio
saving, which had once been Calvinist val
l i d i t t f h t i th
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164 T H E C A P I T A
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vidua l fortu ne were necessarily yoked to
continue, Carnegie predicted, but the m
the poor.50 Although the deadly conflicts bquarter of the nineteenth century would se
ceit that they were essentially beneficent, th
intense hold on the business imagination, in
of millions of dollars to libraries, schools,
i f d B t th l f i i t
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or Francis Lathrops Whitmanesque Collis
with tired, poignant eyes averted in reverie
charisma, none of what has been called ththat era.61 The Chambers anti-charismatic
picion of the Napoleonic metaphor, and a
of outward modesty and respectability. Ye
leaders of America. Writing about econom
i 1904 M W b th i d th t th h
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figure 10 2
Daniel Huntington, Richard Lathers,
1869. Oil on canvas, 50 40 in.
(Credit Suisse, New York)
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170 T H E C A P I T A
divested of refe
largesse, public
itself was politiently, and, visu
ber f rom t he sem