Gilded Age

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Gilded Age



Gilded Age

Greed, poverty, upheaval, reform, corruption, urbanization, industrialization, progress, innovation and struggle these are just some of the words commonly used to describe America in the 1870s and 1880s. With such a long and diverse list of applicable terms it has remained a nearly impossible task to coin an accurate and concise phrase to define that historical period. Age of Excess, Machine Age, Age of Invention and Age of Enterprise represent but a few of the attempts made at the time and afterwards. Yet, of all the attempts made, none has captured the popular imagination more effectively and durably than the ...
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