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Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ vs. the ‘Gilded Age’: An examination
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/25/politics/trump-golden-age-gilded-age-history
President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.
Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era, when robber barons and industrialists built great fortunes but inequality grew.
For a better sense of the Gilded Age — which takes its name from Mark Twain and Charles Dudley’s novel “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” — I talked to Richard White, a Stanford history professor emeritus and author of “The Republic for Which It Stands,” which examines US history from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age. The book is part of the multivolume series Oxford History of the US.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/25/politics/trump-golden-age-gilded-age-history
President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.
Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era, when robber barons and industrialists built great fortunes but inequality grew.
For a better sense of the Gilded Age — which takes its name from Mark Twain and Charles Dudley’s novel “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” — I talked to Richard White, a Stanford history professor emeritus and author of “The Republic for Which It Stands,” which examines US history from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age. The book is part of the multivolume series Oxford History of the US.
