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The Gilded Age

by Janette Thomas Greenwood

Cover of The Gilded Age
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Uses a wide variety of documents to show how Americans dealt with an age of extremes from 1887 to 1900, including rapid industrialization, unemployment, unprecedented wealth, and immigration.

Social conditionsSourcesJuvenile literatureHistoryUnited states, history, 1865-1898United states, history, juvenile literatureCivilization, modern, 20th century