Download or read book The Passing of the Idle Rich written by Frederick Townsend Martin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following publication is a collection of essays written by Frederick Townsend Martin; a New York City writer, advocate for the poor, and an acknowledged leader of society in New York. He was referred to as a "millionaire with a mission." And here, he published his perspective of what he calls "the early excesses of the earliest of the idle rich, condoned by the leaders of society in that day."