The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.
www.theatlantic.com
Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century gilded.
  • Devdoggy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I love that this article is locked behind a paywall. Guilded age. Ha!

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      Except that it’s not. If you’ve got Javascript turned on and don’t run a browser extension which strips off the access token from the URL, you have free access for the next couple weeks.