Abstract

The phrase “Gilded Age” has made a comeback in the past few years: the financial scandals of the early 2000’s, the reckless practices of some businessmen and bankers, the giant mergers, have conjured up memories of the late-nineteenth century United States. The first “Gilded Age,” an expression we owe to the satirical genius of Mark Twain and his co-author Charles Dudley Warner, still smacks of venality, incestuous relations between business and politics, and anti-democratic scheming by a cla...

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