
Assembling the Dinosaur
Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
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Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of Americäs industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North Americäs wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.