The Second Generation

The Second Generation is a novel written by David Graham Phillips. It tells the story of a wealthy family, the Vanes, who are struggling to maintain their status in society. The patriarch of the family, John Vane, is a successful businessman who has built his fortune through ruthless tactics. His children, however, are not content with simply inheriting their father's wealth and power. They each have their own ambitions and desires, and must navigate the complex world of high society in order to achieve them. The novel explores themes of family, ambition, and the corrupting influence of wealth and power. It is a compelling portrait of a family at the height of their power, and the challenges they face in maintaining their position in a rapidly changing world.1906. American writer, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati and New York City, rising to editorial rank on the New York World, for which he wrote until 1902. He became noted as a muckraker and was famous as the author of a series of sensational articles exposing corruption in the U.S. Senate that appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. Phillips�������s novels, powerful although often crude, deal with corruptive influences in society and general social problems, such as the status of women. He came to an untimely death when he was murdered by a young musician who accused him of having cast literary slurs on his family. The Second Generation begins: In six minutes the noon whistle would blow. But the workmen-the seven hundred in the Ranger-Whitney flour mills, the two hundred and fifty in the Ranger-Whitney cooperage adjoining-were, every man and boy of them, as hard at it as if the dinner rest were hours away. On the threshold of the long room where several scores of filled barrels were being headed and stamped there suddenly appeared a huge figure, tall and broad and solid, clad in a working suit originally gray but now white with the flour dust that saturated the air, and coated walls and windows both within and without. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.