An edition of The Gilded Age
(2012)
The Gilded Age
by Diane Telgen
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"Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic forces that transformed the United States during the nineteenth century from a farming society to an urban, industrial one dominated by powerful industrialists and their vast corporate empires. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
America's postwar expansion
The rise of the robber barons
Captains of industry
Gilded age politics, reformers, and regulators
The rise of labor
The 1890s : decade of upheaval
Legacy of the gilded age
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) : populist leader and three-time Democratic candidate for president
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) : steel magnate and philanthropist
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) : Democratic president of the United States
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) : founder of the American Railway Union and the Socialist Party of America
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) : founder and president of the American Federation of Labor
Jay Gould (1836-1892) : gilded age financier and railroad owner
Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933) : reformist speaker and politician
J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) : leading banker and financier of the gilded age
Terrence V. Powderly (1849-1924) : Leader of the Knights of Labor
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) : founder of the Standard Oil Company
Mark Twain describes the get-rich-quick mining culture
The glitter of gilded age high society
Exposing the price-fixing schemes of the "lords of industry"
An anarchist protests his Haymarket death sentence
Andrew Carnegie's "gospel of wealth"
"The problem of the children in New York City
The Sherman Antitrust Act
The populists articulate their principles
William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech
A second gilded age? : the income gap says yes
A new gilded age? : living standards say no
Important people, places, and terms
Chronology.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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