What is it about?
George H. Butler's life connects us to the spoils system at its high point, the American stage,Bohemianism, journalism, American diplomacy and Gilded Age politics.
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Why is it important?
Butler's life is an exemplar of failed manliness in America's Gilded Age.
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Butler fascinated me since I came across his famous gun battle with ex-Confederate mercenaries in an Alexandrian restaurant. Most U.S. diplomats avoid shooting folks with a Colt revolver, I thought it would be useful to see why Butler was different.
john dunn
Valdosta State University
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This page is a summary of: THE MINI-BEAST—GEORGE H. BUTLER (1838–1886), The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1537781414000802.
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