Newport, Rhode Island, is surely one of the most spectacular places in the United States, and, for what its amazing mansions of the Gilded Age represent, it should be considered the Mecca of American capitalist private wealth, suitable for pious pilgrimages of every sort. Visitors to European palaces return home to say the sheer scale has to be experienced to be believed. So it is with these summer homes of the wealthy industrialists of the Gilded Age. They are as immense and magnificent as the palaces of the Old World, but with this difference: these were built entirely with private … Continue reading Don’t Eat the Rich