Pete Hamill Quote

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual mastery of self, talent, and money. Gold created the get-rich-quick mentality that has been with us ever since, most recently during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

Downtown: My Manhattan (2004)

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient...

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient...

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient...

A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient...