“Trump’s golden age looks an awful ... the early 1870s was full of gilded lilies – a period of wasteful excess, shady dealing in business, and political corruption. The year 1872 saw a ...

Yes, the government allowed employers a free hand to do as they pleased. Tens of thousands of workers died on the job every ...

It’s no surprise that the booming economy of the Gilded Age was able to sustain tariffs. Of course, that period had its dark sides—political corruption, “Robber Barons,” child labor ...

political turmoil, the rise of labor in the United States,” said White, author of “The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896.” ...

“This is the height of antimonopoly, political turmoil, the rise of labor in the United States,” said White, author of “The Republic for Which it Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and ...

It is true that the self-styled "tariff man"—his political opponents preferred ... thereof was a cornucopia of corruption, putting the gilded in Gilded Age. Far from being a sophisticated ...

Despite the name, America’s Gilded Age was not as glamorous as it ... surface but was fraught with deep-seated social and political problems. Twain and Warner’s work critiqued the overt greed and ...