In 1850, America had fewer than twenty millionaires; by 1900 it had forty thousand, some as bumptious and proud as James Gordon Bennett, who bought a restaurant in Monte Carlo after he was refused a seat by the window.
Source:
Osnos, Evan. “Prologue” Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. London: Vintage, 2014. 6. Print.
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