The Gilded Age: A Reappraisal (1964)

Format: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The cover is scuffed and sun damaged. There are pencil notes in the first two chapters, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

It was a time of growth and change, progress if one wishes, in almost all spheres of life and labor. Accomplished often with what later generations would call dubious means, yes, but accomplished nonetheless. In the long run this period and its changes and growth may well be the source of American vitality and growth in the critical decades that followed. The generation had a life of its own, achieved enduring and significant things in most spheres of life. That is the pattern we should explore and understand in justice to ourselves and to the Gilded Age. - from the first chapter