In short, it was an utterly degrading bourgeois/ruling-class media deception that "ordinary Americans," if they had any brains at all, ought to have been disgusted by to the point of rebellion. But ordinary Americans, alas, ...
For most of the nineteenth century, in fact, the ?Club House? and ?Griffiths? hotels, both situated across what is nowadays John Mackintosh Square, retained a position of pre-eminence among the Rock?s lodging places, attracting visitors ...