Stephen Gallagher
STEPHEN GALLAGHER is a novelist, screenwriter, and director. He is the author of fourteen novels, including Nightmare, with Angel; Red, Red Robin; and The Spirit Box. In the twilight of the Gilded Age, a man accused of gruesome murders struggles ... [... more]
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Laura Claridge
Laura Claridge is the author of several books, including Norman Rockwell: A Life and Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence. Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners received a National Endowment for the ... [... more]
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Jack Beatty
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign ... [... more]
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James Green
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the ... [... more]
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Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Henry Clay Frick, the world-famous art collector and steel tycoon, was a towering figure in America's "gilded age" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The houses he built for himself and his family exemplify the great residences of [... more]
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The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern ...
 Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8 EAN: 9780742550384 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0742550389 Number Of Pages: 402 Publication Date: 2006-10 [... more]
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Christopher Benfey
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward ... [... more]
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When The Astors Owned New York
Fascinating record of late 19th and early 20th century life in New York: Not only do we get a picture of the Waldorf Astoria as a remarkable social and business venue, we have in this book a history of the Astor family. Here is the wealth, but also [... more]
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The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901
too much flower: being an avid historian i was somewhat disappointed with this book. parts were truely exciting but on the whole a la mozart, "too many words." appears to be written by a frustrated english major using a history subject. tell me [... more]
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the ...
Ultimately unsatisfying, 2.5 Stars: "Progressivism" is one of the vaguer words in the history of American politics, and we could always do with a new attempt to define it. And Michael McGerr's new book starts out promisingly. There is an [... more]
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Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, ...
very informative: This is the best book I have found so far detailing life in Victorian America. The other side of America's burgeoning imperialism: This well written, thematic presentation of American history from 1876 to 1915 is structured around [... more]
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a ...
Scholarly and definitive, but tedious: MRS. ASTOR'S NEW YORK deservedly will become the definitive work regarding the City of New York and, specifically, its upper class, during that period of the 19th Century known as the "Gilded Age." As such, [... more]
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