THE AGE OF GOLD

America's Gilded Age, 1870–1900

Edith Greenleaf Burnham

• Publisher: Chiify
• eBook ISBN:
  9798905160219
• Year: 2026

**Robber barons in top hats. Tenements with no windows.** The richest fortunes in human history rising over the poorest slums on earth. America's Gilded Age was the most contradictory chapter in the nation's story — and the one that shaped your world more than any other. You've heard the names: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan. You know there was something called "yellow journalism" and a Spanish-American War. But the textbook flattens the most explosive thirty years of American history into a few dates and statues, leaving you without the real story: how a handful of men remade the economy, how immigrants and workers fought back, and how the gilded surface hid a country tearing itself apart. To understand modern America — Wall Street, inequality, the labor fight, the urban giant — you have to understand the Gilded Age. And soundbites won't get you there. This book will. **THE AGE OF GOLD: America's Gilded Age, 1870–1900** brings the era to thunderous life — the titans and the tenements, the genius and the grime, the glitter and the rot beneath it. **Inside, you will discover:** - **HOW** Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan built the modern American economy - **WHY** the Gilded Age produced both extraordinary wealth and explosive poverty - **WHAT** really happened during the Populist revolt, the Pullman Strike, and the Panic of 1893 - **HOW** Jim Crow, mass immigration, and women's labor reshaped American life - **WHY** the Spanish-American War launched America's empire — and the fierce voices who opposed it This isn't a parade of statues. It's the real Gilded Age — its brilliance and its rot — laid bare. The age was gilded. Now see what was underneath. **Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to start THE AGE OF GOLD today.**

Table of contents

• Author’s Note
• Contents
• Prologue: Glitter and Grime
• PART ONE: THE TITANS (1865–1900)
• PART TWO: THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER (1865–1900)
• PART THREE: POLITICS AND REFORM (1870–1900)
• PART FOUR: RACE, GENDER, AND EMPIRE (1877–1900)
• PART FIVE: THE CULTURE OF THE GILDED AGE (1870–1900)
• PART SIX: CRISIS AND LEGACY (1890–1907)
• Epilogue: What the Gilded Age Made
• Acknowledgments
• Selected Bibliography
• About the Author