The gilded age: America's Age of Wealth and Wounds

By Nora Bell

Book Description:

The Gilded Age: A Lavish Biography of a Nation Transformed offers a vivid, sweeping portrait of one of the most dazzling and divisive eras in American history. Blending historical narrative with rich biographical insight, this book brings to life the titans of industry, political powerbrokers, reformers, immigrants, laborers, and women who shaped a nation bursting with ambition and burdened by inequality.

From the rise of monopolies and political machines to the glittering ballrooms of Fifth Avenue and the tenement slums of Lower Manhattan, this biography-style account explores the contradictions of an age gilded in gold but fraught with cracks. Through ten powerful chapters, readers will journey from post Civil War industrial explosions to the birth of progressivism, uncovering how the legacies of the Gilded Age still echo in modern America.

Ideal for history lovers, students, and anyone fascinated by the roots of today economic and social divides, The Gilded Age is a richly detailed and thought-provoking tribute to a time that redefined the American dream and continues to challenge it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6KWXWNM
• ISBN13: 9798281482066
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"