The Gilded Age

Starring: Distribution, PBS

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: PBS
• Director: n/a
• Starring: Distribution, PBS
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Before their time a tale of Henry George, Mary Elizabeth Lease, and Jacob Coxy.

American Experience: The Gilded Age S30.E3 Episode aired Feb 7, 2018 A great buildup of narratives by: Oliver Platt – Narrator < --- H.W. Brands - Historian Richard White – Historian Richard John - Historian Rebecca Edwards - Historian John Kuo Tchen – Historian Steve Fraser – Historian Paula Giddings – Writer Sylvia Hoffert – Historian Jack Lears – Historian Norm Maggor – Historian David Nasaw – Historian Edward O’Donnell – Historian Julia Ott – Historian Nell Irvin Painter – Historian Susie J. Pak – Historian John Kuo Wei – Historian There are enough actual pictures and films to keep this presentation from having a sound bite feel. The documentary is presented well enough to ruffle a few feathers, as a good documentary should. I must have been sleeping under a rock. We get a whole story of William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative; all I could think of was the movie “Gone with the Wind” 1960. I learned a lot that my history teachers had not told me. To the gold standard, he said, “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” Do not forget to a further reading with: -Progress and Poverty: Full and Fine Text of 1880 by Henry George. -The People's Joan of Arc: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America (American University Studies Book 14) by Brooke Speer Orr is a tad expensive, but keep looking. - For the Ayn Rand type, we have the Principles of Sociology by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). - Panic Scrip of 1893, 1907, and 1914: An Illustrated Catalog of Emergency Monetary Issues by Neil Shafer (Author), Tom Sheehan (Author), Fred Reed (Author, Editor), Loren Gatch on the background leading to these currency issues. - Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age by Jerry Prout The documentary is of a time squarely in the middle of Alvin Toffler’s second-wave industrial economy and ignores today's third wave with either questions or answers. This is strange as it was made in 2018 (long after the industrial economy and with no reference at all to the information age).