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Gilded Age

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Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner ’ s The Gilded Age (1873), a satire of Americans ’ rush for material gain and political corruption in the years immediately following the Civil War, provided succeeding generations with a ready frame of reference for this period. Many historians ’ examinations of this era emphasized the political parties ’ keen competition and how the ruthless, if innovative, industrialists that Matthew Josephson dubbed “ the robber barons ” used a complaisant federal government to build vast fortunes from the United States ’ s abundant natural resources. For several generations the Gilded Age (1866 ...

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