The Gilded Age
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1884 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1884 |
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Author | : Esther Crain |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031635368X |
The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution. Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class. The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row. Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her "Electric Light" ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: "Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City." -Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world." - Entertainment Weekly Must List "What better way to revisit this rich period . . ?" - Library Journal
Author | : Jerry E. Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Elite (Social sciences) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Businessmen |
ISBN | : |
Satirizes the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War.
Author | : Charles William Calhoun |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742550384 |
Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2020-03-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486437922 |
Rollicking 1873 tale portrays post-Civil War corruption of Washington, D.C. The Gilded Age became synonymous with the era's excesses, and its subtitle — "A Tale of Today" — remains relevant.
Author | : Judith Freeman Clark |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1438108842 |
Illustrates how historical events appeared to those who lived through the Gilded Age. This book includes critical documents as well as capsule biographies of more than 100 key figures. It contains maps, graphs, and charts and each chapter provides an introductory essay and a chronology of events.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Businessmen |
ISBN | : |
Satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War.
Author | : Howard Wayne MORGAN |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1442903260 |
Author | : Milton Rugoff |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640191348 |
"Rugoff's spirited and immensely beguiling book takes a joyful bite out of the nineteenth century." - The New York Times "King of the Lobbyists" Sam Ward was best known for his talent for throwing parties - courtesy of the U.S. Treasury. And Alva Vanderbilt squandered tens of thousands on one evening to crack the closed social circle of the Mrs. Astor. And when Jay Gould, of Black Friday fame, sent his card to one of the Rothschilds, it was returned with the comment, "Europe is not for sale." It was this climate of mid- and late-nineteenth-century excess that fostered the most rapid period of growth in the history of the United States, replacing the unyielding Puritanism of Cotton Mather with the flexible creed of Henry Ward Beecher. National Book Award nominee Milton Rugoff gives his uniquely revealing view of the Gilded Age in this collective biography of Americans from 1850 to 1890. Writing on the political spoilsmen, money kings, parvenus, forty-niners, lords of the press, sexual transgressors, and women's rights leaders, Rugoff focuses on thirty-six men and women from almost every walk of life. His exponents include U.S. Grant, John Charles Frémont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jim Fisk, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Horatio Alger, free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, first female surgeon Bethenia Owens-Adair, Brigham Young's rebellious nineteenth wife Anna Eliza Young, Boston Brahmin Charles Eliot Norton, Gold Rush pioneer Sarah Royce, black visionary Sojourner Truth, and to critique American society, Walt Whitman. In examining the Gilded Age, Milton Rugoff offers fresh glimpses into the lives of the celebrities of the era, as well as some lesser-known Americans, while at the same time revealing the roots of problems that still plague us today.