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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication.
The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (1982). ISBN 0-226-76990-9. Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2000). Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884. (University of North Carolina Press). Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2004). Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics (University of North Carolina Press).
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Historians saw late 19th-century economic expansion as a time of ...
‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO offers a fresh perspective of women’s roles during the late 19th century. ... American writer Mark Twain coined the term in his 1873 novel of the same name, used to ...
Power and special benefits for a handful of industries, gaping wealth inequities, and obscene poverty. 2023 is 1873 all over again.
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The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, employing the ironic difference between a "gilded" and a Golden Age. [60] Politically, the Republican Party was in ascendancy and would largely remain so until the 1930s with brief interruptions.
The Gilded Age is a period of American history from around 1870 to 1900. Gilded Age may also refer to: History of the United States (1865–1918) more broadly; The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner; The Gilded Age, an American television series