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Article: The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2008
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The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001. By Michael McHugh. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006. Pp. v, 364. $40.00.)
This ambitious work examines economic, political, and social trends in the United States in the late twentieth century. The period from 1973 to 2001, this author contends, should be viewed as a "second Gilded Age" because its defining features--economic elitism and social conservatism with a populist flavor-mirrored the central characteristics of the late 1800s.
Although Michael McHugh gives most of his attention to the era from 1973 to 2001, he sets up that analysis by looking at two earlier ...