What they're saying: "You look at the numbers and it's very similar to the Gilded Age... Taxation was very regressive during the Gilded Age," Zucman said.
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In the Gilded Age, faith in leadership dimmed even further.
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age.
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Reproduced from "Navigating the New Gilded Age" by Bruce Mehlman.
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The Gilded Age was not a golden age in America.
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Gilded Age plutocrats hunted fox and summered in these hills.
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Yet Industries never satisfies my inner Gilded Age tycoon, either.
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Extraordinary philanthropy, in our new Gilded Age, is extraordinarily praiseworthy.
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Again, the Gilded Age has parallels to this government inertia.
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We've had this problem before, during the first Gilded Age.
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As a result, economic inequality has reached Gilded Age levels.
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Gargantuan tech companies enjoy market shares unknown since the Gilded Age.
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But today's government has something that the Gilded Age did not.
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The very phrase "Gilded Age" conjures cartoon visions of such individuals.
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What's the deal with your insistence on a "New Gilded Age"?
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The comparison to America during the gilded age is particularly striking.
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Contemporary philanthropists don't look like the tycoons of the Gilded Age.
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It is as if Gilded Age corruption reached the global stage.
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CLEM: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, by Wendy Gamber.
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A costume drama set in the Gilded Age in New York?
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Some would say we're living in the Gilded Age of renting.
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Her grand overarching ambition is to end America's second Gilded Age.
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Although I associate the Gilded Age with Newport "cottages" and Mrs.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 28883) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 223) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (closes on Saturday) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 33) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 9212) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 23370) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 30) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 23) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 220888) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (Saturday through April 2244) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Tim Wu's recent book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," argued that failing to break up the newest giant corporations posed a grave risk of repeating the worst excesses of the Gilded Age.
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Income and wealth inequality rivals levels last seen in the Gilded Age.
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Income inequality today is indeed at levels that recall the Gilded Age.
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It still has a scattering of gentlemen's farms and Gilded Age mansions.
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The exhibition Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age continues through June 5.
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It has climbed dramatically since the 1980s, returning to Gilded Age levels.
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In this bizarro Gilded Age, some things have changed, some have not.
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The tariff didn't create Gilded Age monopolies, but it abetted their rise.
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The Gilded Age plutocrat is no longer free to exploit child labor.
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In this, their outlook contrasted with the rampant individualism and self-seeking that preceded them in the Gilded Age and that returned in the 1920s (and in the 1990s and 2000s, which has been called 'the second Gilded Age').
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Monopoly was really at the heart of the capitalism of the Gilded Age.
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Control of the economy has not been this concentrated since the Gilded Age.
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No, it's either the Gilded Age 2.0 or plunging straight to Venezuela's wretchedness.
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This was the era between 1874 to 1894 known as the Gilded Age.
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With Fowler & Wells, Mr. Colicchio tries to extend the atrium's Gilded Age exuberance.
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We moved from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era, and history developed.
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There have been increasing calls in the press, government, and legal worlds that our current tech giants constitute monopolies the likes of which we haven't seen since the Gilded Age, and that we need to give them the Gilded Age treatment.
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The original Gilded Age was a period from the 1870s to [around] the 1910s.
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Their targets in both cases were the party machines that dominated Gilded Age politics.
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In our new Gilded Age there is no need for negotiation between two sides.
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Op-Ed Contributor Everyone knows that we are again living in a Gilded Age.
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Elizabeth Warren's 2020 wealth tax plan, said America has entered a new Gilded Age.
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THE GIVERS: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, by David Callahan.
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And could there be some Gilded-Age perspiration still lingering somewhere in the mix?
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In the Gilded Age, culture is being trafficked through these world expositions and fairs.
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The extravagant inequality of the Gilded Age could return if no preventive action is taken.
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Was Sears to the Gilded Age or the early 20th century what Amazon is now?
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But the closest parallel with what is happening today is the gilded age in America.
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The struggle to prevent another Gilded Age doesn't suffer from a lack of political imagination.
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Jack Kelly: One of the parallels to the Gilded Age and today would be technology.
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Its early mail-order and distribution innovations made it the Amazon of the Gilded Age.
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Tell the country how you would end the new Gilded Age and improve people's lives.
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"This is yet another reminder that we are in a second Gilded Age," she said.
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Barringer's comparisons to John Singer Sargent, the painter-courtier of Gilded Age extravagance, feel compensatory.
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We've seen this at the founding, the Civil War era and during the Gilded Age.
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It's still the gold standard on understanding how we've come to a new Gilded Age.
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Broad institutional and governmental change is what the Gilded Age triggered in the ensuing Progressive Era.
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Unlike Thiel, the Gilded Age robber barons knew the difference between their businesses and charitable endeavors.
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The ballroom as a discrete element in the American home came about during the Gilded Age.
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But then came the Gilded Age, and the rise of a class of unprecedentedly rich people.
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Welcome to New York in the Gilded Age, colonial Australia, and WWII on the Greek islands.
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Yet the problems with the "Second Gilded Age" idea don't end with the flawed historical similarities.
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After the war and throughout the Gilded Age, the designs became intensely sophisticated and eventually legendary.
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This is why the gilded age in the 19th century can seem so similar to today.
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Plus, it's the dawn of a new gilded age where EVERYTHING is better dipped in gold.
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The brilliant general became the miserable President, fuelling the descent from glory into the Gilded Age.
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For these reasons, they explicitly challenge yet another parallel between 2018 and the Gilded Age: nativism.
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Since the Gilded Age, corporations have built effective walls around their charters, protecting them from attack.
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"At the beginning of the Gilded Age, this is what wealth looked like," Mr. Zar said.
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America's federal government has not seen this type of revolving door turnover since the Gilded Age.
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Located in Charleston, South Carolina, Wentworth Mansion is known for its gilded age architecture and decor.
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André was the stylist for Melania's gilded age 2005 wedding to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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In the first, a trio of Gilded Age socialites prepare for a forthcoming ball in Newport.
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Rich Americans, on the other hand, continue to thrive, amassing Gilded Age-level concentrations of wealth.
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William McKinley, the quintessential Gilded Age president who defeated a populist challenger, was also a protectionist.
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Before starting, students should define "robber baron" and "monopoly" in the context of the Gilded Age.
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Children growing up amid the inequities of the Gilded Age were presumably beginning to know better.
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Both men took as their subjects the social and economic elite of their Gilded Age day.
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THE GIVERS Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age By David Callahan 343 pp.
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The central challenge of our time is restoring some balance to our modern, Gilded Age economy.
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In the Gilded Age, some of the mega-rich started giving away huge amounts of money.
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In March of 1883, Alva Vanderbilt threw one of the most lavish parties of the Gilded Age.
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896.
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The Gilded Age cremation movement failed, largely because of the extraordinary power of the growing burial business.
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Most great houses had a few, which is why they were must-haves in Gilded Age America.
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The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age By Cecelia Tichi 303 pp.
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Gilded Age men had fewer sartorial and social restrictions, as long as they maintained a certain facade.
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And the Frick could satisfy a need for temporary space while its Gilded Age mansion undergoes renovation.
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A dozen or so opulent mansions preserved from the Gilded Age invite tourists in for gawking tours.
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The era of the Gilded Age laid bare the gap between our nation's haves and have nots.
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"The gears of Progress, that demiurge of the first Gilded Age, were set in reverse," Fraser writes.
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Then it elevated the "robber baron" (again, the clue is in the name) tycoons of the Gilded Age.
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They have made the term "Second Gilded Age" a convenient shorthand for affluent arrogance and economic inequity today.
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Chanler was not the only Gilded Age flame to extinguish in the later decades of the 20th century.
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The first federal progressive income and estate taxes date from the first Gilded Age, over a century ago.
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Or does corruption and ever-widening economic disparity mean we are in something more like the Gilded Age?
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"The Gilded Age also saw ideas that challenge the conflict between economic growth and political institutions," said Fink.
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Dating back to the Gilded Age, New York had been characterized by gaps between the rich and poor.
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If we're really living in a new Gilded Age, then tech titans are some of its bloated tycoons.
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"After more than 20 years of unprecedented wealth creation, the Second Gilded Age has stalled," the report found.
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Look at what we're talking about: inequality, this new gilded age, this unprecedented inequality in terms of wealth.
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The Gilded Age socialists admitted what their opponents often did not: Americans did not all share common values.
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An hour from Providence by car or public bus is Newport, a seaside resort with Gilded Age mansions.
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So what drove hundreds of Gilded Age American heiresses across the Atlantic to marry into struggling British families?
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What is at stake is whether American democracy can overcome the new Gilded Age of inequality and insecurity.
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Income inequality in the United States has become as pronounced as at any time since the Gilded Age.
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"People think of the Frick as this centuries-old Gilded Age mansion," said the museum's director, Ian Wardropper.
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It's an extraordinary building and it became a kind of icon of what I call India's Gilded Age.
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The most important example that I use is the transition from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era.
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"To write 'The Gilded Age' is the fulfillment of a personal dream," Mr. Fellowes said in a statement.
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Its Gilded Age- Firefly shtick wore thin through repetition, and doing quests often involved one forgettable massacre after another.
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"The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age," Brock said.
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But are we really living in a new Gilded Age, or is this just the status quo for America?
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For we aren't just living in a second Gilded Age, we're also living in a second robber baron era.
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Maymont, a Gilded Age estate and public park on 21990 acres on the James River, is three miles away.
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Thus the public and private spaces of Gilded Age Brooklyn were able to host lively cultures of sexual contact.
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The Gilded Age abuses of the late 19th century were followed by the progressive renaissance under President Teddy Roosevelt.
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In the gilded age of industrialization, we already had great entrepreneurs, who we later came to call &aposrobbers&apos.
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He shares the conviction of Gilded Age socialists that values, not economic laws, determine the contours of American society.
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The wedding's excess and the obviously transactional nature of the match shocked even the usually fawning Gilded Age chroniclers.
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He was the toast of Gilded Age New York, thronged by reporters and cheered on by Vanderbilts and Astors.
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More big league givers keep emerging as the vast fortunes of a second Gilded Age are harnessed to philanthropy.
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In this new Gilded Age of virtually limitless political contributions, it's unsurprising to see politicians beholden to corporate funders.
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The architecture of Courtroom 4 evokes the gilded age of Youngstown, when it was known as Steel Town USA.
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China is essentially going through a hugely accelerated version of the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age rolled into one.
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As a marquee speaker on the Gilded Age circuit, James could be selective about his gigs, and he almost declined.
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The last time it was as high for the top 10 percent as it is today was the Gilded Age.
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It might be flippant to call our present moment "a new Gilded Age," but the phrase reflects a certain understanding.
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During the Gilded Age, farmers came together in an effort to break the railroad companies' choke hold on food transportation.
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The region is known as a rural haven for the wealthy and is home to opulent Gilded Age-era mansions.
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Cliff Walk is a 3.5-mile seaside trail that winds past some of the famous mansions from Newport's Gilded Age.
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The decision led to an end of the American Gilded Age, with trust busting shifting power away from robber barons.
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A late Gilded Age mansion, it was designed from 1912-14 by Thomas Hastings for the industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
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During the campaign, he has compared Google and Facebook to the oil, steel, and railroad trusts of the Gilded Age.
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By the Gilded Age, saloons were places for slow, social imbibing, a beer drinker's republic blending immigrant and American cultures.
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Today, members of a new Gilded Age are again in control of many of the country's most venerable media outlets.
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That's a shame, because these most recent episodes have been a bonanza of breakthroughs for our Gilded Age Scooby Gang.
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How much younger would be one of the many subjects of dispute in a trial that riveted Gilded Age America.
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The Biltmore is one of America's most famous estates, and one of the best remaining examples of the Gilded Age.
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The three-story Jefferson Place townhouses, built originally as single-family homes during the Gilded Age, are a notable exception.
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Kiernan trains a wide lens on Gilded Age America, particularly after the 1929 stock market crash imperiled the family's fortunes.
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Welcome to Manhattan in the new Gilded Age, where condos offer wealthy buyers not just decadent indulgences — A wine cellar!
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Gilded Age Americans did not even have to go to Europe to behave badly: They had the West for that.
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THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1898, by Richard White.
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The Gilded Age (of white Americans), from the 1870s to about 1900, is a joy to research and write about.
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"Hyde Park more or less developed as a getaway for wealthy Gilded Age families," said Shannon Butler, the town historian.
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" For her part, Ms. Kalman said: "Of course, what I think of is the anti-Semitism of the Gilded Age.
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It includes: the Antifederalists, who lost the debate over the Constitution in 1787-88; the leaders of the Confederate States of America; the captains of industry who dominated the first Gilded Age; the Southern defenders of Jim Crow and enemies of the civil rights movement; and the current corporate leaders of our second Gilded Age.
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On a couple of pages of The Gilded Age in New York, Crain describes the "Opera House War" of the 1890s.
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" Nevertheless, as Crain assures in her book, "Underneath the facade of the modern city, the ghosts of the Gilded Age dwell.
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But those who use the phrase "Second Gilded Age" to criticize contemporary inequality are also paying unintended tribute to Carnegie's logic.
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Bone explains that she was a Gilded Age star, and, when Modernism took over America, the art Audrey inspired seemed dated.
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His fashion sense, about which he is outspoken and fastidious, seems ripped from Gilded Age cartoons about predatory industrial fat cats.
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Scholars are comparing the era to the Gilded Age of robber barons, when the issue of trusts first gained popular infamy.
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The socialists Mr. Sanders most resembles were Gilded Age intellectuals, reformers, union members and ordinary citizens who self-labeled as socialist.
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"The Beneficiary" describes the making and spending of "a moderately sized American fortune" that lasted from one Gilded Age to another.
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Few people in the midst of the post-Civil War Gilded Age had a better feel for American democracy than Adams.
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It's also how Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner described the Gilded Age in their 249.95 novel of the same name.
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A third dotes on pet dogs named Astor and Rockefeller, one of many nods to the ostentation of America's Gilded Age.
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Where the first "Gilded Age" saw enormous resistance to inequality, Fraser argues, ours has seen a distracted, demoralized culture of compliance.
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THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 By Richard White Illustrated.
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This New Gilded Age has found an epicenter in Los Angeles, particularly where Bel-Air, Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills converge.
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Indeed, as the expansion entered its record-setting 22008st month on Monday, signs of a new Gilded Age are all over.
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Well, so this is ... To move us back outside of the tech world, you're thinking here, think in your head of ... I mean, the subtitle of my book is called "The Billionaire Raj, India's New Gilded Age," and so the image you should have in your head is really of a Gilded Age tycoon in America.
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It's time to break up Facebook Tim Wu's new book is called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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Some have grown angry at the inequality and there have even been claims that we currently live in a second Gilded Age.
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America in the Gilded Age was a starkly unequal place, not just in terms of inequality between people but inequality between regions.
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Festival on Friday — the young heroine falls in love with a masculine woman, a union organizer in a Gilded Age garment factory.
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Recent years have been a Gilded Age for those other fans, though, the ones who are here for a pan-pop spectacle.
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The initial idea, that this was a place to preserve old stuff — a grandparent's attic from the Gilded Age — now seems outdated.
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One trouble with Spring for Music was that the inventiveness of the programs often got swallowed up in Carnegie's Gilded Age grandeur.
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Ms. Frelinghuysen helped Mr. DiMeo with facts, but mostly left him alone with the space, a reconstructed room from the Gilded Age.
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For now, it exists in at least two netherworlds: the glamour of the Gilded Age and the convenience of new New York.
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In high school, I got to know people who were several classes above us — living on the remains of Gilded Age fortunes.
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A somber portrait of what inequality looked like during the first Gilded Age might have been one way to adorn the building.
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I know, I know: The last thing a country struggling with Neo-Gilded Age inequality needs is more influence from billionaire supercitizens.
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Past books have taken Scott to fin de siècle Vienna, the deck of a Gilded Age ship and an occupied Italian village.
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The Gilded Age is long over, but this city still works to protect its past by preserving the mansions that attract tourists.
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Much like today, the Gilded Age witnessed a stark divide between rural and urban voters and an increasing feeling of income disparity.
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What you Get A renovated 1835 sawmill in Greensboro, a Gilded Age condominium in Milwaukee and a seaside house in Sonoma County.
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This is the Gilded Age of the Electronic Middleman and the Make-Believe Visionary, and they have their sights set on the stars.
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So are liberal democracies doomed to a repeat of the pattern that saw the gilded age give way to a breakdown of society?
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It's the soundtrack to this new American Gilded Age, and City Girls are grifters with hearts of gold (and minds for it, too).
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" Canova has called for greater regulation of Wall Street, writing on his campaign website that "we are now in a new Gilded Age.
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Corruption in the form of gold speculation and whiskey-tax evasion reached deep into his administration, a sign of the oncoming Gilded Age.
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John Pierpont Morgan, a banker from America's gilded age, reckoned that bosses should earn at most 21 times the pay of their underlings.
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The "solutions" that ended Gilded Age inequality, in other words, became a crucial seedbed for our own era's historically distinct expressions of inequality.
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"Reforms were adopted in the first Gilded Age, an era similarly plagued by government dysfunction, political corruption and enormous economic inequality," Gilens notes.
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Tariffs were a sign of corruption in the Gilded Age, as Cost points out, but that's because they insulated giant trusts from competition.
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But now they are also likely to be a referendum on the Republican vision of the American Eden as a second Gilded Age.
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But in Wu's new book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," he argues that all of that has changed.
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We live, it is often said, in a new Gilded Age —an era of extravagant wealth and almost as extravagant displays of generosity.
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Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room, century-old Gilded Age palace just outside of Philadelphia, was designed by Horace Trumbauer in the late 1890s.
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Kudos to Kisseloff, who published this book in 1989, for jumping on these stories when the Gilded Age was still in living memory.
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Benches like this were placed on open deck spaces and show the kind of Gilded Age opulence that could be seen on board.
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BRINGING DOWN THE COLONEL A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington By Patricia Miller Illustrated.
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Newport's Gilded Age mansions are open daily in the winter season, and you can see them decked out for the holidays from Nov.
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Greenback Labor and the People's Party put the whole money question, during the post-Civil War Gilded Age, and the issue of monopolies.
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If one desires to return to the Gilded Age, with a financial crisis at least once every decade, this is a splendid plan.
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Among the Ocean State's most famous attractions are the mansions of Newport — the Gilded Age weekend homes of the 19th-century filthy rich.
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NBC just announced a planned 2019 premiere for "The Gilded Age," a drama based on this period from "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes.
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In some respects, it makes sense that Shonibare has installed his workin the Driehaus, a consecrated monument and tomb for the gilded age.
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It is one of many Gilded Age retreats in the Adirondacks whose signature architecture, featuring logs, fieldstone and bark, became known as Great Camps.
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But visitors will not find sparkling chandeliers, tall mirrors and expensive silver gracing highly polished dining room tables, typical of Gilded Age city mansions.
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Against the glare of opprobrium, the Big Tech companies, quite different from the imperious Gilded Age trusts, are attempting to at least appear responsive.
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Monday night's "Silver Smile" shockingly gave us some concrete possible clues about the identity of the serial killer currently terrorizing Gilded Age New York.
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Yet historians such as Steve Fraser and James Livingston have rightly objected to the notion that today we are in a second Gilded Age.
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As it did in the 1920s, America is currently facing a Gilded Age: careening economic inequality and instability across essential social and political institutions.
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In the midst of this debate over the future of antitrust comes Tim Wu's The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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There are 1,864 islands along the 50-mile stretch, many of which were retreats for business moguls and movie stars during the Gilded Age.
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The truth, that the Libertarian Party essentially stands for a return to all the worst abuses of the Gilded Age, is not out there.
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But that's all wild guess work, and New York was a really big city — on an island, no less — even during the Gilded Age.
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In his 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Piketty argues that we're living in a new Belle Époque — a new Gilded Age.
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Since then, the income share for the top 1% has sharply increased, and is now back up to its Gilded-Age-highs around 20%.
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The extraordinary concentration of wealth in this new Gilded Age, and the tilt of public policy in its favor, is itself evidence of corruption.
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It has served as a religious home for Gilded Age robber barons and a rehearsal space for Joe Papp, founder of the Public Theater.
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Fraser's piece ostensibly targeted the robber-baron philanthropy of the Gilded Age, but she was also implicating museums' current embrace of free-market capitalism.
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These collective forays into the Gilded Age and its aftermath, however, provide a different perspective, using the past as another window into the present.
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White also suggests that the venality and political feebleness that ensured Reconstruction's overthrow in the South marked the actual commencement of the Gilded Age.
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With upwards of $2trn expected to pass from entrepreneurs to their heirs over the next 15 years, the family office is entering a Gilded Age.
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A year on, the talk in Washington is of a new gilded age, with Mr Kushner as a kind of Jay Gould with better suits.
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It seemed to be the perfect story for our gilded age, showing the extent to which the 1 percent had insulated themselves from government oversight.
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MBA students may be dealing into the financial system of a New Gilded Age, but our social policy positions reflect a far more progressive era.
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A standing-room-only crowd of true believers and opportunists crammed into the vast domed hall of a former Gilded Age savings bank in Williamsburg.
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The Palace was rebuilt after the 1906 fire as a Gilded Age haven for visitors and the city's elite, constructed around a central Garden Court.
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This was the Gilded Age, and, even as most Americans were struggling to get by, the one-per-centers were putting up "cottages" in Newport.
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White's Gilded Age chronicle comes to its close as he returns to the image of Abraham Lincoln, whose sudden death in 1865 inaugurated the period.
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Gilded Age Republicans would "wave the bloody shirt" to remind Northern voters of the Democratic Party's openness to dividing the Union during the Civil War.
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Belcourt Mansion is a Gilded-Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island that was modeled after 17th-century French King Louis XIII's hunting lodge at Versailles.
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Throughout the Gilded Age, legislators frequently drew new district lines to consolidate their power — until the opposition party won control and redrew their own lines.
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Farmers in the Gilded Age hated tariffs, which inflated freight charges and the price of equipment, as well as the cost of everyday household goods.
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Pawel portrays Brown as a thoughtful visionary whose faith in the emancipatory potential of the free market helped usher in the nation's second Gilded Age.
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As a whole, the room is ostentatiously ornate — a classic Gilded Age interior — but its luster prevents the many design elements from weighing it down.
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Back in the Gilded Age, like on the Titanic, you had a ship within a ship; there were classes and gates and all that stuff.
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The Gilded Age painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler felt so exploited by his patron, Frederick Richards Leyland, that he vandalized a wall in Leyland's home.
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I don't have much interest in battleships and my husband doesn't have much interest in the Gilded Age but we both enjoyed these things equally.
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But other wealthy countries, just as exposed to the winds of global change, haven't seen anything like America's headlong rush into a new Gilded Age.
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The Public Art Fund will celebrate its 40th year with a Central Park installation by the sculptor Liz Glynn that recreates a Gilded Age ballroom.
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As has been the case over the last couple of decades, partisan control of the Congress switched regularly, and sometimes violently, during the Gilded Age.
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The wide halls, regal rooms and wrought-iron arches of the Park Avenue Armory have glorified military might since its founding during the Gilded Age.
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Go deeper: Architects of Elizabeth Warren wealth tax say we're in new Gilded Age Billionaires are not happy with Elizabeth Warren and her wealth tax
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In some respects, it makes sense that Shonibare has installed his work in the Driehaus Museum, a monument and tomb consecrated to the gilded age.
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Many of our cherished arts organizations were created by Gilded Age plutocrats, yet are no longer tethered to the Darwinian social views of their originators.
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"I think of it more conceptually than maybe statistically, but in the Gilded Age inequality was a function of the Great Leap Forward, of industrial revolution and economic growth, which happened unhinged from other kinds of compensating social institutions or mechanisms of wealth redistribution," said Leon Fink, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the author of The Long Gilded Age.
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Yet it's hard to imagine an era in Gotham's history more transformative than the Gilded Age, roughly between the end of the Civil War and 1910.
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He wrote a book on the subject, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, and appeared all over media to make his argument.
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It started — like the "work ethic" Max Weber described — as a way to justify why, during the Gilded Age, some people were rich and others poor.
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The Gilded Age of the late 19th century gave way to the Progressive Era at the turn of the 20th century, when antitrust laws were passed.
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She went on to Pittsburgh, editing a women's magazine, and ended up in New York, working at McClure's , the great American magazine of the Gilded Age.
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Going back to the great populist-labor upheavals of the Gilded Age and beyond, wealth redistribution proposals have long propelled economic reform movements on the left.
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The photographs were to be of Dakota Johnson, and the setting was the Samuel Borchardt House, an opulent Gilded Age mansion on West Eighty-sixth Street.
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And because baseball is the oldest of American pro sports, its Gilded Age labor legacy is written into the practices of nearly every professional team sport.
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In the first Gilded Age, the concern was over land monopolization by a handful of large-scale owners and how that crowded out and impoverished labor.
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Trump praised one of those pols, Representative Greg Gianforte, a man with nouveau Gilded Age wealth and attitude to go with it, for committing criminal assault.
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On this week's podcast, she talks about her work, including why she thinks influence in government exists in ways we haven't seen since the Gilded Age.
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The railroad sector, a source of so much wealth in the last Gilded Age, has but two billionaires, the same number those in as consumer finance.
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The Garden Court, as it's called, is a stunning relic from the Gilded Age, and a wonderful place to enjoy afternoon tea or a light lunch.
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To help him realize his vision, Mr. Crawley was paired with Grosvenor Atterbury, an architect of Gilded Age confections both on Long Island and in Manhattan.
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But as the role of the government evolved in the gilded age of robber barons and imperialism, Congress gradually delegated more authority to the U.S. Treasury.
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We're essentially in a new Gilded Age, referring to the period in the late 19th century of huge economic growth alongside massive inequality that followed Reconstruction.
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Larry M. Bartels is a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and author of the newly revised Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age.
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The current taste for huge residential real estate and the fortunes that underwrite it have brought obvious comparisons to the Gilded Age for some time now.
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Like the great titans of industry during the Gilded Age, hedge fund managers recently have been spending their riches on famous contemporary and Old Master art pieces.
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Fans knew we were in the midst of a creatively gilded age, a time when the medium's ambitions and visibility were reaching an intertwined, mutually nurturing apex.
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While every political party has its cleavages, the Gilded Age Democrats were attempting to merge support for immigrants and big city residents with rural southerners and segregationists.
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Rumors of its impending end began swirling after Fellowes signed a deal to write "The Gilded Age," a period drama about New York high society for NBC.
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During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, the district's world-famous cast iron construction was a prefabricated imitation of earlier French Renaissance and Italianate styles.
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The laissez-faire Gilded Age that ended around 21942 led to the progressive era, when government stepped in to regulate business and create a social safety net.
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She'll also be solving crimes as Sarah Howard, a Gilded Age secretary who is determined to become New York's first female police detective in TNT's The Alienist.
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A Theory of Justice was published in 21969, just before economic inequality began its long ascent from its lowest level in history to today's Second Gilded Age.
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All this worry about the prospect of a new Gilded Age can obscure the fact that there are solutions to many of the problems informing these comparisons.
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More than 100 years ago, at the height of the last Gilded Age, Congress passed its first law prohibiting corporations from spending money to influence election campaigns.
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"Between 214.99 and 1914," Tinniswood writes, "128 American women and three men married into the British nobility," shoring up the walls they overleapt with Gilded Age wealth.
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Instead of leading to a more frugal eating culture, precarity has resulted in a proliferation of the luxury restaurants that have come to symbolize our Gilded Age.
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But it has coincided with an era of economic concentration not seen since the Gilded Age and a decline of media outlets devoted to art and culture.
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They would allow for the creation of generational wealth to rival that of the last Gilded Age, after which the modern estate tax was enacted in 1916.
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The succession of Civil War, Reconstruction and the Gilded Age was marked by bitter partisanship, endemic corruption, appalling violence and a general sense that democracy was failing.
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Of course, as Succession slyly asserts over and over, there is not a lot of difference between today's impossibly rich clans and those of the Gilded Age.
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The site's first theater, built in a neo-Renaissance style popular in the Gilded Age, opened in 1908 as the Marathon, a vaudeville theater with 600 seats.
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The setting was the Fifth Avenue mansion that McKim, Mead & White, the architects to the rich and famous of the original Gilded Age, designed for Payne Whitney.
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Instead of a Mad Max-inflected Earth with a '50s Raygun Gothic aesthetic, it portrays a far future where the Gilded Age of robber barons never ended.
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"Open House," her winning installation here, translates the plush chairs and ottomans of a Gilded Age ballroom, designed by the architect Stanford White, into monochrome concrete copies.
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Our campsite fell just east of Raquette Lake, around which the titans of the Gilded Age once built sprawling summer estates at the turn of the century.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney tied the knot this weekend in one of the lesser-known Gilded Age mansions dotting the Rhode Island coast, Belcourt of Newport.
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Most of the focus on the Gilded Age has been on the economic scene, but in light of the elections, there are some very clear political similarities.
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In today's Gilded Age — when chief executives are making well over 300 times what the typical worker brings home in pay — the idea is getting new life.
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"We're not adding cosmetic procedures, we're adding confidence procedures," Ms. Docherty said at the Lenox location, a Gilded Age mansion that has undergone a $10 million renovation.
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It is a Potemkin-like sop to local landmark laws, all that remains of two brownstones from an earlier Gilded Age that were leveled unceremoniously last summer.
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Mr Crabtree is a former Mumbai bureau chief of the Financial Times and his book is full of sharp snapshots from what he calls India's new gilded age.
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The comparison — though superficial — keeps working because economic inequality keeps growing, and most Americans associate the Gilded Age first and foremost with excesses and egotism of great wealth.
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The imposing homes were once a symbol of affluence and taste during the Gilded Age, a period of American history marked by political corruption and severe income inequality.
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After he learned that one model had inspired most of the city's famous Gilded Age statues, he used investigative reporting techniques to unearth new details about Munson's life.
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These tycoons, who are often likened to the robber barons of America's Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, would go on to amass vast fortunes.
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Brenda Wineapple on how Richard White's The Republic For Which It Stands is really a history of Republicanism in its chronicling of American Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.
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Descendants of the Gilded Age horseman and industrialist C. K. G. Billings will auction one of his luxurious racing trophies that had long sat boxed in a closet.
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Discovered by a discerning photographer while window-shopping on Fifth Avenue, Ms. Munson embodied Miss Manhattan in the raucous decades between the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties.
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Newport, R.I., home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a famous jazz festival and Gilded Age mansions, is a popular tourist destination at this time of year.
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The erosion of the line between fact and opinion is one of the strongest trends linking the Gilded Age, the Roaring Twenties and the Vietnam era to today.
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The reputation of Ulysses S. Grant was tarnished by the mere association with the unseemly practices that earned his Gilded Age counterparts in the business world everlasting glory.
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In 1998, playing the relationship columnist Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City," Sarah Jessica Parker helped usher in HBO's golden age and define a Manhattan gilded age.
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Her enforcer was her powerful major-domo, Ward McAllister, a Gilded Age Steve Rubell whose velvet rope was his veto over an invitation to the annual Astor ball.
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The Gilded Age was a time when a booming population and cheap printing costs created a flood of newspapers competing to be a town's equivalent of click bait.
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Eddie Vale, a Democratic public relations strategist who led the protest, later said the image was meant to evoke old cartoons of Standard Oil, the Gilded Age monopoly.
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Philanthropy has been a controversial pursuit since at least the Gilded Age, when workers began to organize in response to widening wealth inequality as industrial capitalism took hold.
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To read Richard White's THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 is to come across an unnerving doppelgänger.
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The political divide of the Gilded Age ended after the panic of 1893, which took place during a rare time when Democrats had complete control of the government.
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Thanks to a certain terrible-but-ubiquitous board game, the old robber barons of the Gilded Age are still widely recognized as the symbol for monopoly in America.
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With its exquisitely detailed scenes and lack of dialogue balloons, it bore little resemblance to its comics-page peers, evoking instead the elegant illustrations of Gilded Age storybooks.
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In a phone call last week, Koppelman and Levien offered a glimpse into the thinking behind the new season — a crystal ball for our strange new Gilded Age.
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Fuller is famous for leading the Gilded Age court in upholding the doctrine of separate but equal, striking down the federal income tax and habitually ruling against labor.
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"The EEOC may help, but it's not the solution," said Jane McAlevey, a labor organizer and author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.
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Esther Crain's book The Gilded Age in New York, 21950–21870 chronicles the rise of the NYC metropolis and the roots of its role as an international cultural center.
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"When I knew I was a Republican, the books that motivated me were about the Carnegies, the Rockefellers and the Mellons," Johnson said, recalling titans of the Gilded Age.
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Democrats have seized on inequality as a campaign issue and tech billionaires like Zuckerberg and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos embody the excess of a gilded age for tech success.
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Gradually, I discovered the regional flavors of ugly mansions: Cleveland suburbs weirdly favor medieval or chateau style, Long Island loves the look of a Gilded Age robber baron estate.
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The Outer Worlds deploys the aesthetics and economic relationships of the Gilded Age and the first Industrial Revolution, but strips out the burgeoning class awareness that typified that period.
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Theologians at the time, like the Baptist minister Walter Rauschenbusch, then gave a theological understanding to the ongoing struggles of these working Christians against the Gilded Age robber barons.
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In this Gilded Age, though, that kind of two-pronged strategy—raking in money by any means necessary and ostentatiously dishing some back out—may not cut it anymore.
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Accounts like these pepper tales of the Gilded Age, the period in US history roughly from the end of the Civil War to the start of the 20th century.
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And, of course, his version of "draining the swamp" has brought a level of corruption to official Washington that would have embarrassed the congressional barons of the Gilded Age.
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The income inequality that was the hallmark of the Gilded Age in the late 1800s was driven by changes in employment as the nation moved from agriculture to manufacturing.
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It was designed to test whether the world was experiencing a new era of "robber barons"—a global re-run of America's gilded age in the late 193th century.
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At the height of the Gilded Age, a time characterized by superficial glamour and deep corruption, these foundations, imbued with vague missions to improve general welfare, seemed benevolent enough.
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He researches and authors the guides himself, and, pursuing his doctorate degree in the Gilded Age, tends to focus on the drama built out from artists from 1870-1915.
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He probably began writing it in 1873, the year he and his co-author, Charles Dudley Warner, published "The Gilded Age," their novel of Reconstruction-era corruption and greed.
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Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia, the author of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age" and a contributing New York Times Opinion writer.
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You might assume that someone would have thought of this perfect Venn diagram of social media, beauty pageant, puppy adoration, grinning female empowerment, and Gilded Age excess by now.
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These cases are part of a longer historical arc: the dismantling of the legal legacy of the New Deal and the creation of law for a new Gilded Age.
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Of course, the fears about industrialization were realized, and by the late 19th century, in the Gilded Age, income inequality had reached levels comparable to those we see today.
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Welcome to "The Gilded Age," a PBS documentary about that period in the late 19th century, clearly intended to resonate with the political and income-inequality parallels of today.
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" Tim Wu (@superwuster) is a law professor at Columbia, a contributing opinion writer and the author, most recently, of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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It is important to realize, as I have described before, that the Gilded Age was a time of "rancorous partisanship, factional fights and general dysfunction" in our national politics.
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The new tech giants now wield a kind of power as the central nodes of commerce and information that we haven't seen since the railroads of the Gilded Age.
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You might assume that someone would have thought of this perfect Venn diagram of social media, beauty pageant, puppy adoration, grinning female empowerment and Gilded Age excess by now.
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But people are starting to look at Facebook and Google and wonder how they are more trustworthy or transparent than Standard Oil or U.S. Steel, the Gilded Age corporate behemoths.
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It was during the Gilded Age that African-American men — who had just secured voting rights in the 15th Amendment — were disenfranchised through legal chicanery and racist, state-sanctioned violence.
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It's not just a thrilling crime story, but a portrait of New York at that time, the Gilded Age, with all these social differences and these worlds, that melting pot.
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FoW reader W.Spackman linked to this July report by Deloitte, which said income inequality today is comparable with the Gilded Age of robber barons, in the 19th century (Figure 3).
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Bernie Sanders, battling the House Freedom Caucus's cruel proposals and the Gilded Age-style TrumpCare plan that is a windfall for the wealthy and widely rejected by the American people.
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Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt.
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Among those whose bank accounts brim with the soon-to-be Tubmans, a "velvet rope economy" is blossoming by providing Gilded Age-style separation of the upper and lower classes.
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Here's a first look inside: The palatial Gilded Age home once belonged to Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane, granddaughter of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built the family fortune.
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Jefferson's ideal of an egalitarian, agrarian society was an anachronism before the 19th century was out, while the Gilded Age, near that century's end, provided garish confirmation of Adams's insight.
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Not surprisingly, Beaux-Arts buildings can be discovered throughout Paris, offering insight into an optimistic, gilded age in which designers were simultaneously mining the past and the future for inspiration.
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"The Gilded Age," the much-anticipated follow-up from the creator of the British period drama "Downton Abbey," is to air in 2019 on NBC, the network confirmed on Wednesday.
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Broker: Giordano, Wegman, Walsh and Associates, Christie's International Real Estate Holding at third place from January was an over-the-top Gilded Age townhouse with 17 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms.
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Now a new paper from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has provided fresh evidence for what we all suspected: We really are living in a new Gilded Age.
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Stanford, who made a fortune from railroads during the mid 1800s, fell under the umbrella of a "Robber Baron," a negative term for the powerful industrialists of the Gilded Age.
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Maybe all the wealth members of that class lost under the New Deal — and have regained many times over in our second Gilded Age — didn't do much for their happiness?
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But the countenance of McKeller, who was African-American, is everywhere in Boston, in the work of one of the most prominent painters of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent.
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Go deeper: Architects of Elizabeth Warren wealth tax say we're in new Gilded Age Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax could've slashed billionaire's fortunes Warren promises to release Medicare for All plan
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The idea of using government to ameliorate economic divides might have caught on earlier — the inequality of the Gilded Age might have been tamed before it ran out of control.
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It seems America hasn't had this many tycoons at the pinnacle of our political system -- elected, appointed or manipulating from the shadows -- since the Gilded Age of the late 1800s.
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A. That all depends on your taste, of course: the city's history is filled with legendary parties, from Gilded Age opulence to its quaalude-fueled orgies during the disco era.
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Still, it was far from the sole fancy dress ball of the Gilded Age, and certainly not the only one where fine ladies were adorning their luxurious dresses with dead animals.
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Street smells from Gilded Age New York could have wafted through the windows, mingling with the collection of rare tomes from across various eras, and the cigar puffing of Morgan himself.
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Law professor Tim Wu, the author of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," has some second (and third) thoughts about the court's decision to approve the megamerger.
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This was true in the past when, for example, the searing inequalities of the late 19th-century "Gilded Age" spawned new Marxist parties and the agrarian-populist People's Party in America.
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That strategy was honed by the robber barons of the first Gilded Age in the 19th century, who seemed to give away just enough to temper mainstream pushback on their exploitation.
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Its founders included Marshall Field, Erastus Corning and Joseph Lawrence, then mayor of New York, while its early clients included Gilded Age tycoons such as William Waldorf Astor and Oliver Harriman.
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He told me Sears was basically the Amazon of the Gilded Age, and that it's not unreasonable to be creeped out by the steady collapse of what's left of the competition.
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The robber barons of America's Gilded Age in the late 19th century gave way to the Progressive Era at the turn of the 20th century, when tough antitrust laws were passed.
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Internet companies and entrepreneurs, formerly valorized as the vanguard of American ingenuity and the astronauts of our time, were being compared to Standard Oil and other monopolists of the Gilded Age.
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Fiercely independent like her father, who was a misfit in Gilded Age society despite his vast wealth, Anna Gould loved fashion and dressed as she wished, with little care for convention.
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Outrageous luxury is only one element in Koons's masterly fusion of Pop content and minimalist aesthetics, which prophesied and still authorizes the cultural aplomb of our reconstituted, remorselessly ongoing gilded age.
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A similarly definitive brand statement was on deck at Tommy Hilfiger, where classic Americana looks with nautical details and suggestions of Gilded Age opulence were paraded on a steamer ship set.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads George A. Schastey had one of the most popular design firms among New York City's Gilded Age elite, but now his work is barely known.
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He agrees broadly that, in this new Gilded Age, capitalism must be saved from itself, but he is not prepared to call for the breakup of Amazon and Facebook and Google.
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" Hochschild suggests that Rose's story should speak to us because in our new Gilded Age, "the appeal of making that magical leap from poverty to great affluence is once again resurgent.
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She makes a persuasive case that a prime driver in the American heiress exodus was escape from the savage competitiveness of Gilded Age society in the capital of status, New York.
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This is precisely how fundamentalists read Scripture in the early 20th century, when evolutionary science challenged their reading of Genesis and social science confronted narrow corporate interests during the Gilded Age.
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Asheville, N. C. — with its lively arts district, locavore food movement and over-the-top, Gilded Age mansion — attracts hordes of leaf peepers as soon as the temperatures start to drop.
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We are living in a second Gilded Age in America, where the richest 1 percent now hold 40 percent of the nation's wealth, more than the entire bottom 90 percent combined.
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The aftermath of the Gilded Age brought social upheaval: More of the economy was industrializing, more immigrants were arriving in the United States, and women were taking on more public roles.
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Private jets are the ultimate symbol of our new Gilded Age: Ever more popular with the very wealthy, they have induced a sort of hand-wringing among more progressive-minded billionaires.
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In the late 2200th and early 299th centuries, "Social Christianity" spread across denominations to address and confront the bleak reality of working people under the massive inequality of the Gilded Age.
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During the Gilded Age, there were six switches in the House and four switches in the Senate, plus one deadlocked session where neither party held a majority, from 1874 to 1894.
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The parallels between the late 19th century Gilded Age, named after a Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner novel about a speculative land deal gone awry, and the modern era are striking.
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"Much of this conduct has been hiding in plain sight," said Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University and author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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The Economist: If equality can only come about by war, revolution, state-collapse or plague, then is there an argument that we should simply learn to adapt to a new gilded age?
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That decentralization, combined with the predatory nature of the gilded age — an era of economic deregulation and extreme income inequality — left North Dakota's fledgling economy vulnerable to the whims of corporate banks.
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Barry Popik, a New York city historian who rediscovered Munson's role as a muse for the Gilded Age, has been campaigning for years to get her put on a U.S. postage stamp.
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The concentration of incomes grew during the Gilded Age and eventually peaked during the Jazz Age, when the share of income going to the top one per cent reached twenty per cent.
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In short, today's big companies are dominating the economy to a degree not seen since the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, says Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University.
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Patrick Maney, a Boston College historian who recently published a book about the Clinton presidency, which he dubbed "A New Gilded Age," disputed the idea that the Obamacare comments were a gaffe.
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The "creative" side of creative destruction did not necessarily compensate: Americans who were born during the gilded age were shorter and had a briefer lifespan than those born half a century earlier.
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It can trace its roots back more than a century, to the days when Gilded Age railroad barons fulminated against the leftist European immigrants who, they believed, were infecting America with communism.
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What's happening: Economists say we live in an age of income inequality not seen since before the Great Depression — and possibly since the Gilded Age at the end of the 19th century.
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No one embodied these Gilded Age tycoons more than J. P. Morgan, the financier who used his wealth and connections to create industrial Goliaths like US Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation.
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That it is happening in an era of income and wealth concentration, unrivaled except by the Gilded Age, is one of the biggest challenges the country and world will have to address.
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A longstanding summer resort, the town retains much of its Gilded Age architecture as well as old inns, taverns and churches, some dating back to the first half of the 18th century.
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In the ensuing 20 years, it completed its transition from a grand dame of the late Gilded Age to a combination of hotel rooms and condominiums anchored by a subterranean shopping mall.
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And the meticulous restoration of some of the paneled reception rooms, with their Gilded Age décor and oil portraits of bearded officers, only reinforces the lingering feeling of an old boys' club.
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The full expression of Gilded Age in New York, this sumptuous bar with a gold-leaf ceiling has reopened for classic and modern cocktails and light bites from the chef Cedric Tovar.
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When Pollard filed her suit in 1893, the United States was reeling from a financial crisis that would signal the end of the Gilded Age and the beginning of the Progressive Era.
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Unlike Manhattan clubs with the kinds of gemlike hangouts that the Gilded Age architect Stanford White turned into an art form, the Friendly Sons do not have a clubhouse of their own.
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For another powder room in the same house, the designers chose an even more intense wallpaper called Gilded Age, from Phillip Jeffries, with an undulating metallic stripe that makes the walls glitter.
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It reinforced criticism from the left — by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, among others — that Amazon, Facebook and Google are unaccountable monopolies, digital analogues to the railroad trusts of the Gilded Age.
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He amassed a collection of old issues of Puck magazine, the satirical publication that was published in the area and took on the corrupt politicians and corporate monopolies of the Gilded Age.
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David Callahan, author of "The Givers: Money, Power and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age," published this week by Knopf, sees both sides of the story, with a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Hofstadter related how businessmen, free marketeers and opponents of efforts to uplift the poor seized upon Darwin's seminal work, "On the Origin of Species," to justify social inequality during the Gilded Age.
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"We are living in the second Gilded Age," said Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale University, referring to the stark wealth gap produced by the Industrial Revolution.
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By the end of the Gilded Age, philanthropy had assumed an explicitly legitimizing purpose, according to Ben Soskis, a historian and research associate at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
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The ways people were talking about these things in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era just strikes me as so similar to the way people were talking about these things now.
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The negative side of this portrayal may be more prominent in times of high inequality (think of the robber barons of the Gilded Age or the Gordon Gekko figures of the 1980s).
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They demonstrate her considerable skill as a painter and expand the Frick's Western European-inspired collection into the customs and aesthetics of cultures far beyond the aspirations of Pittsburgh's Gilded Age patrons.
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Because there were no body of tenants' rights laws at the time, evictions in Gilded Age New York grew from 16,000 per year in the early 1880s to more than 23,133 by 1892.
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In 21974 America's Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil, and, as a populist wave swept the country, the government also initiated legal action against US Steel, the other giant of the Gilded Age.
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As law professor Tim Wu writes in The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age: In the United States, between 1997 and 2012, 75 percent of American industries became more concentrated.
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Why this matters: Mehlman notes that the Gilded Age saw the rise of vast fortunes for innovators, new technology reshaping the economy and intensely divided politics, all helping to fuel a populist backlash.
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In doing so, the Met would save $18 million annually, while the Frick would score a prime location while it renovates its permanent home, a Gilded Age mansion on the Upper East Side.
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The piece also evokes another kind of excess, resembling a lavish playhouse that a Gilded Age millionaire with a Fifth Avenue mansion might have had built on a country estate for his children.
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"If data is the new oil, is [Amazon's Jeff] Bezos the new Rockefeller?" asks Bruce Mehlman, a Republican lobbyist, in a report called "Navigating the New Gilded Age", which is circulating in Washington.
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City Opera has also commissioned the composer Tobias Picker to write "American Venus," about the true story of the rise and fall of a Gilded Age supermodel, for its 75th anniversary in 2019.
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Another blow came recently in the form of a Supreme Court decision that will further eviscerate unions—those social institutions that were so crucial in pulling us out of the first Gilded Age.
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The Gilded Age drama follows Lily Bart — a beautiful, vain, yet endearing socialite with limited means and a weakness for gambling — as she seeks financial security in the form of a suitable husband.
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It was the kind of spirit that has moved the team's fans — men and women — to flock to recent games sporting long, faux beards in tribute to Fitzpatrick's bushy, Gilded Age hirsute appendage.
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Vehicle-friendly entrances have their roots in the last Gilded Age, when buildings like the 21806 Dakota on the Upper West Side provided a roof overhead for those arriving and departing in carriages.
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He based his theory of fabulousness on the Norwegian-American sociologist Thorstein Veblen's late-19th-century treatise "The Theory of the Leisure Class," which satirized conspicuous displays of wealth during America's Gilded Age.
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Built between 1876 and 203, and most elaborately decorated in Romanesque and Renaissance Revival styles, they're distinguished Gilded Age relics from a period when Broadway below Union Square was an emerging garment district.
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Robert McCoy, Whippany Park High School, Whippany, N.J.: Gilded Age Mugwumps and "Republicans for Democrats" The 2018 midterm elections saw a misrepresented faction of the Republican Party shed its affiliation by supporting Democrats.
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Past experiences have included a visit to Eero Saarinen's soaring, disused TWA Flight Center; a night tour of Gilded Age mausoleums in Woodlawn Cemetery; and a boat trip up the polluted Newtown Creek.
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While Downton writer and creator Julian Fellowes has two projects in the pipeline – a miniseries, Dr. Thorne, and a show for NBC, The Gilded Age, fans still have a bit to wait until those will hit their screens (Gilded Age has been said to be aiming for a 2017 release, while Dr. Thorne may be coming at the end of the year.) In the meantime, here are 2001 movies, TV shows and miniseries that will quench your period piece thirst.
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In The Gilded Age in New York, 1870–1910, recently released by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Esther Crain chronicles some of these moments with text and illustrations based on contemporary accounts and archival materials.
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It was the onset of the Gilded Age, an era of widening income inequality that saw the court first introduce "corporate personhood," the concept that a corporation has the legal rights of a person.
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In her book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, Crawford called for a massive national fiber project comparable to Dwight Eisenhower's creation of the National Highway System.
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"There are so many rip-offs in this bill that people are going to say this is some kind of new Gilded Age," said Senator Ron Wyden, top Democrat on the Senate Tax Committee.
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A new, modern steel-and-glass entrance on Madison Avenue took the place of the smaller, more old-fashioned entrance to the museum's original Gilded Age building around the corner on East 36th Street.
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" Mr. Crabtree believes "there is no reason" that India's current Gilded Age cannot "blossom into a Progressive Era of its own, in which the perils of inequality and crony capitalism are left decisively behind.
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To show how busting up big businesses into smaller parts was once a veritable American tradition, he charts how antitrust law emerged in response to the grotesque inequality of the 19th-century Gilded Age.
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That's when Caleb Carr published his novel, the film rights to it already sold, thus beginning the long journey to the screen of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a serial killer hunter in Gilded Age Manhattan.
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The British beauty was married to a wealthy banker, but don't mistake her for a Gilded Age real housewife—Meyer was a patron of the arts and a passionate crusader for the suffragist movement.
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Our first stop is the Morgan Library & Museum (21964 Madison Avenue, at 250th Street; general admission, $22), a citadel of the first Gilded Age that continues to collect and surprise in this second one.
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White argues, as do many, that there are profound parallels between the first Gilded Age and the current moment, from exploding inequality to rising corporate power to racist backlashes against immigrants and black Americans.
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John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, plutocrats of the Gilded Age, used their money against their enemies, to be sure, enemies that included newspapers and magazines that disagreed with them for all sorts of reasons.
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To use a concept developed by Carlota Perez, an economic historian, revolutionary technologies always go through a "gilded age", often accompanied by an investment bubble that pops, before entering a "golden age" of widespread deployment.
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The Outer Worlds draws its best moments from this contrast, and from the suffering and determination of the people living under the yoke of a really asinine economic system right out of the Gilded Age.
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It has economic inequality rivaling the Gilded Age of the late 19th century and tens of millions of working people who have essentially lost faith in the American economic bargain as living standards have declined.
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The contradictions of modern American democracy we'd tried to convince ourselves had been vanquished—racism, sexism, Gilded Age-style consumerist excess, the merging of the political class with the economic elite, hubris abroad—remained entrenched.
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Consider the First Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, when the country faced a surprisingly similar confluence of problems: widening financial inequality, rampant corruption and concentrated corporate power, and a judiciary hostile to reform.
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During some of the most polarized times in our history, including the antebellum, post-Civil War, and Gilded Age periods, the Senate did its work (imperfectly and sometimes badly) without a mechanism to end debate.
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From 1895, when the Supreme Court struck down the progressive income tax at the height of the Gilded Age, to 1913 when the 17th Amendment was ratified, ten new Supreme Court Justices joined the Court.
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Built by Gilded Age architect Richard Morris Hunt for socialite Oliver Belmont, the Belcourt Mansion was modeled after Louis XIII's hunting lodge at Versailles and is now owned by Alex and Ani founder Carolyn Rafaelian.
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In our new Gilded Age, it's an obvious alternative to a world where some live in lavish luxury, but most never have their incredible human potential — to create and leave lasting legacies — nurtured and celebrated.
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Domesticated by celebrity pastors like Norman Vincent Peale, apostle of positive thinking (and Donald Trump's childhood pastor), New Thought became the bedrock of the modern Prosperity Gospel, the capitalist catechism of the New Gilded Age.
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But the appropriate paradigm for user safety—on Facebook and the rest of the internet—is public health, the same sorts of initiatives that dismantled the exploitive tenement housing systems of the previous Gilded Age.
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In the new Gilded Age, farces about rich people behaving badly will eventually take place in every boom economy, given that every well-off nation now has its own breakaway republic of the 1 percent.
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In the way that the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and the Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison have bought up large chunks of Hawaii, the barons of the Gilded Age took control of Georgia's barrier islands.
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The last decade has seen a wide range of shocks: The Great Recession and the neoliberal excesses of our new Gilded Age, which have led to rising inequalities, have squeezed the middle classes almost everywhere.
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Book Entry The role of philanthropy in the current era of rising economic inequality is the focus of David Callahan's new book, "The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age" (Knopf: 2017).
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The literal, actual president of the United States is the most wealth-obsessed New Yorker since the Gilded Age, and he speaks openly of seizing oil in disputed territories, of deploying our military for profit.
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Last October, Hurricane Matthew poured historic flooding into St. Augustine, inundating downtown, where Spanish colonial-style buildings and Gilded-age spires gleam over the bay, and leaving residents ripping out walls and replacing sodden furniture.
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Fellowes said that he will start working on the follow-up to the 2019 film after he finishes writing HBO's The Gilded Age, a series that is focused on New York City in the 1880s.
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The share of income going to the richest 1 percent of Americans rose steadily from 1870 to a peak of nearly 20 percent in the late 1920s, as global commerce created a "gilded age" plutocracy.
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Roosevelt's broadsides against the Stephen Schwarzmans of his day came at a charged historical moment, as the American republic was lurching from Gilded Age plutocracy to Progressive administration, with nods to populism along the way.
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They are the potential heirs to the tradition that goes back to California's Gilded Age philosopher Josiah Royce, who preached the philosophy of loyalty that guided Governors Johnson, Warren, Reagan and Brown, father and son.
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The venerable Rizzoli Bookstore, which resided for many years on West 57th Street, moved into the Gilded Age St. James Building, at 1133 Broadway, in 2015, creating an elegant interior to match the handsome facade.
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Innovations like steel frames, and the elevator, enabled Gilded Age architecture to rise above previous sites such as Trinity Church on Wall Street and Broadway, which was the highest structure in the city until 1890.
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It's no surprise we are experiencing economic inequality that amounts to a New Gilded Age, with the richest 0.1% of all American families owning as much wealth as the lower 90% of all American families combined.
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"If you think about the acceleration of billionaire wealth just over the past 10 years alone, we've been through what we call the second gilded age," said John Mathews, head of private wealth management for UBS.
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"A century ago, in the Gilded Age, waves of mergers led to the creation of some of the biggest companies in American history — from Standard Oil and JPMorgan to the railroads and AT&T," Warren said.
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Their relationship to the troubling end of the Gilded Age in America eventually led to their depiction as haunted and ghostly in both fine art and pop culture, and now they're an unspoken symbol of dread.
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The Social Gospel was a theological viewpoint that developed during the Gilded Age — amid the drastic inequality of the early 1900s, ministers had to find a way to speak to the working people of their congregation.
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Economic policies that seek to prop up homegrown companies as "national champions" have a bad track record, says Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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" LG: I mean, if that's not fake news … then also, from that same article in Politico, which I recommend people read, they note how sensationalism has always sold well: "During the Gilded Age, yellow journalism flourished.
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Established in 1919, at a time when Gilded Age populists and farmers were worried that Eastern banks were cheating them, the Bank of North Dakota has no branches or ATMs and only one depositor: the state.
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As the religious historian Stephen Prothero has argued, Gilded Age advocates for cremation hoped to purify the remains of the wealthy, by fire, and keep them separate from the rotting, polluted remains of the buried masses.
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"In the mind of most workers, there's no distinction between the public and private sector," said Jane McAlevey, a veteran labor organizer and the author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.
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Other than that, details are still to come as to how a new plan to renovate the Frick's Gilded Age mansion will differ from the one it was forced to scrap last year after intense controversy.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is changing that with Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, an exhibition highlighting his intricate and lavish woodwork, including his only known signed work: the case for an 10003 Steinway piano.
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Had she been a man, she would have sat alongside the robber barons of the Gilded Age—men who engaged in the exact same behavior as Woodhull, the only difference being they got away with it.
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According to NYC Parks, Hettie Anderson was said by Saint-Gaudens to be "certainly the handsomest model I have ever seen of either sex," and she was a a popular Gilded Age muse in New York.
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The title of the new book by James Crabtree, "The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age," suggests that India has now come under the grip of a new but no less troublesome regime.
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The United States could have built a lot more libraries by taxing the incomes of Carnegie and his fellow Gilded Age plutocrats, but, at the turn of the last century, there was no federal income tax.
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Like anyone making the modern-day pilgrimage, what I saw upon approach to Plymouth Harbor was not the rock itself, but a Greco-Roman temple designed by McKim, Mead & White, architectural superfirm of the Gilded Age.
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During her tenure as director, she oversaw the $91 million renovation of the museum's home at Fifth Avenue and East 91st Street, which aimed to make its Gilded Age mansion more inviting to modern-day visitors.
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But while Gilded Age mansions were built as family legacies to be passed down to future generations or endowed to universities, these tech-centric, ultramodern glass-and-marble behemoths are designed for living in the moment.
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The Gilded Age wizarding world, Art Deco with a splash of steampunk, moves from vintage New York to London and Paris over the course of the film, and it looks as lovely and inviting as ever.
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While survivors who want to seek justice through the courts should do so, "Lawsuits are not a strategy," as Jane McAlevey, author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, has put it.
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All this strikes me as an indictment of our current gilded age, in which the gap between the wealthy and the poor continues to grow wider while the boundless greed of those now in power defies reason.
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What the public is seeing is the disruption of the belief in Silicon Valley exceptionalism - that, unlike Gilded Age robber barons, 21st-century digital plutocrats are transparent in their dealings while building and using their great wealth.
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Specifically, the columns, capitals, domes, pediments, and cornices of neoclassicism—all the things that made capitol buildings seem so trustworthy (until the Gilded Age) and Main St. bank buildings seem so permanent and reliable (until the Depression).
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Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, tells The Verge that the DOJ's recent loss is simply the culmination of a several-decade decline in meaningful antitrust enforcement in America.
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The reason public approval of Trump has fallen to such low levels is that after he promised to make America great, he delivered a Gilded Age presidency drenched in greed, bathed in vanity and promoted with falsehoods.
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When the Gilded Age of the 19th century corrupted politics and finance, a new generation of reformers created the progressive movement and offered dramatic proposals that were realized during the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt.
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If we want to just look at the US, for example, I've had some conversations about how it's a new Gilded Age for the US, and that's why you're having a new progressive movement and nativist movement.
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The repeating names may suggest a certain Gilded Age anachronism, but A.G. is considered a real heavyweight in the newsroom — a smart and humble editor who's also very astute about the difficult state of the news business.
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More than anything else, what emerged from conversations with economists, labor experts, sociologists and futurists is that a society without unions would look a lot like the increasingly gilded-age reality we live in now—just worse.
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CLEM: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age (Johns Hopkins University, $21963) has an intriguing point of reference: The post-Civil War era, when the economy was unregulated, speculators abounded and con artists had a field day.
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Saloons were not manly haunts for mutton-chopped gods; rather they were havens for economic refugees, coming from Ireland or Poland, North Carolina or South Dakota, harried men fleeing the enormous social disruptions of the Gilded Age.
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The imposing white chateau at 59th and Fifth, with its lordly views of Central Park, designed by the Gilded Age maestro Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, dominates the most desirable corner of the most dynamic city in the world.
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The sheer scope of this grimy, Gilded Age New York will stun viewers of other tri-state-area period dramas like "The Knick" and "Boardwalk Empire," which feel modest in comparison — in geography, if not in quality.
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Upstairs, in the second-floor living room, he installed salvaged woodwork, including a set of ornate built-in bookshelves, extracted from a soon-to-be-razed mansion designed by the famed Gilded Age Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer.
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The most famous of these Gilded Age mansions include The Breakers, Marble House, The Elms and Rosecliff — but Lawrence's potential venue is a newcomer to the tourist circuit, with some far less savory periods in its history.
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Bookshelf Ward McAllister became the arbiter of Gilded Age society in 1888 when he defined the Four Hundred — supposedly the number of true aristocrats in New York, which also happened to match the number of people Mrs.
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The new name had to meet the approval of the developer, GFI Capital Resources Group, that had turned the decaying Gilded Age building at 5 Beekman Street into a luxury hotel and condominium complex called the Beekman.
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What the public is seeing is the disruption of the belief in Silicon Valley exceptionalism — that, unlike Gilded Age robber barons, 21st-century digital plutocrats are transparent in their dealings while building and using their great wealth.
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Despite roving discussions on the seriousness of social issues, a thin gauzy veil of gold separated the conversations and the people who are experiencing those issues miles from this enchanting setting, very reminiscent of the Gilded Age.
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The implications of this historical debate for public policy today makes a recent book on the events that brought the Gilded Age to an end and ushered in the Progressive Era all the more timely and urgent.
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Liu is the founder and chief executive of e-commerce giant JD.com, and has a net worth estimated at $7.9 billion — he and his wife, Sister Milk Tea, are among the rock stars of China's new gilded age.
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In his new book The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, David Callahan argues that today's philanthropists are energized by data-driven solutions and seek social causes where they can have a high impact.
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Tucked away on Cortlandt Alley, a narrow, timeless-feeling backstreet just south of Canal, the dining room has clubby décor that evokes a Gilded Age tavern—all brick walls, dark wood, leather banquettes, and medieval-looking light fixtures.
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All of the Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age pieces belong to a world beyond our experience, but the podcast, like the piano concerts, are different ways of conjuring the human interactions that once animated for these objects.
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Mr. Sanders sounds like these Gilded Age socialists in part because the issues of their time were similar to ours — immigration, environmental deterioration, declining well-being and growing inequality in a period of rapid technological and economic change.
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Birds in Paradise ($250) gestures at "the fuchsia scent of ripe guava flesh," she says, while Gilded Age ($350) is an olfactory rendering of light flooding through beveled glass with notes of gold ambergris and oud wood smoke.
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But the beloved room is, sadly, now on borrowed time: On Tuesday, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the Frick's plan for a major expansion and renovation of its complex, originally a 1914 Gilded Age mansion.
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Painting a picture of a Gilded Age economic system so craven it left the blood of locked-up, laboring children to spill out "into the gutters," Warren's official purpose was the unveiling of her latest anti-corruption agenda.
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PBS's "The Gilded Age" uses that history as a prism into a present still wrestling with these themes, including the debate over money's influence over politics since the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling regarding campaign-finance laws.
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Risk-taking and rugged individualism, big business's eternally self-proclaimed virtues, were in extremely short supply at the top; Gilded Age fortunes sprang from government subsidies, insider tips and, above all, the corruption required to get these favors.
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Then we should take on Google and Amazon, the airline industry, the beer industry, all these concentrations of wealth and political power that have enabled what could be called a second Gilded Age — which sounds nice but isn't.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In many ways, the frenetic New York of today was rooted in its Gilded Age, when from 21910 to 1910 the city's growth accelerated in its population, skyscraper-punctuated architecture, and cultural institutions.
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Fanning will play Sara Howard, a "headstrong secretary at Police Headquarters" who, along with co-stars Daniel Brühl and Luke Evans investigae a series of brutal murders in New York during the Gilded Age (from about 1870 to 1900).
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In The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, Tim Wu calls out those huge firms holding most of the power in tech, banks, medicine, and more, and explains the real danger of such excessive corporate power.
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The irony is not lost on Ian Wardropper, the director of the Frick Collection: The very gated garden that upended the museum's previous attempt to renovate its 271 Gilded Age mansion is now the centerpiece of its revised design.
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He suggests that our new Gilded Age has seen the return not only of monopolization and astronomic inequality, but also outsized oligarchical influence over the media, whether it's an envelope-pushing website, a storied newspaper, or something in between.
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The ultimate historic destiny for Bernie Sanders may well resemble William Jennings Bryan, the progressive populist who first ran for president in 1896 against the corruptions of the Gilded Age and was opposed by the oligarchs of that age.
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Against a New York that moves from the Gilded Age into the frenzied '20s, from the Great Depression into the postwar boom of acquisition and beyond, the goods in which the brothers and their descendants traffic become increasingly abstract.
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The most expensive show produced by TNT is based on Caleb Carr's best-selling 1994 historical thriller about a psychiatrist (or alienist, as they were once called) in Gilded Age New York who tries to catch a serial killer.
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UNDEVELOPED: Denise Kiernan's "The Last Castle" — new in hardcover nonfiction at No. 11 — uses the vast Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C., as a lens to view the Gilded Age lives of George and Edith Vanderbilt, who created the estate.
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B. Wurtz Surrounding City Hall Park's quatrefoil fountain, an early Gilded Age confection abounding with gushing water jets and repurposed gaslights, are four insouciant "Kitchen Trees" by the sculptor B. Wurtz, which were commissioned by the Public Art Fund.
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The United States has never been a socialist country, even when it most likely should have been one, during the robber baron tyranny of the Gilded Age or the desperation of the Great Depression, and it never will be.
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"The book wouldn't exist if Trump weren't president," he said of his manuscript, an analysis of breakdowns of American democratic norms after the republic's founding including the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Great Depression and Watergate.
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In his 2017 book The Republic for Which It Stands, Stanford historian Richard White describes America's Gilded Age, spanning from the late 19th to early 20th century, as an era of great wealth, greater poverty, and all-around excess.
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Both arose in an era when increasingly financial sophistication was allowing the creation of large industrial organizations — often with classic Gilded Age generic names like US Steel, Standard Oil, and the American Sugar Refining Company — that dominated their respective industries.
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The term "Second" or "New Gilded Age" has been appearing in print for nearly four decades, describing everything from the junk-bond 1980s to the internet-bubble 1990s, and the Collateralized-Debt-Obligation 2000s to the top-1-percent 2010s.
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Best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality" and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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This would not be the first time partisan politics played a role in statehood decisions (the reason there are two Dakotas is that Gilded Age Republicans were trying to pack the Senate) but it's good to have clarity about the reason.
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During three periods in particular -- the Gilded Age of the 1880s and 19303s, the Roaring Twenties through the 1930s, and the Vietnam era of the late 1960s and early 1970s -- there is evidence of a shift away from reliance on facts.
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Of the exhibitions that opened at the Met Fifth Avenue, 21 received more than 100,000 visitors each, including "Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends" (254,750); "Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age" (210,303) and "Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom" (187,030).
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When I say that Republicans have been more protectionist than Democrats, I'm not talking about the distant past, about the high-tariff policies of the Gilded Age; I'm talking about modern Republican presidents, like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
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Thanks in part to their influence over both tariff policy and the new methods of customs collection, the big refiners were soon able to form the Sugar Trust, one of the most notorious and successful monopolies of the Gilded Age.
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Blaine is now nearly forgotten, but during the Gilded Age he was a star candidate for the White House from 1876 to 1892, even when he didn't want the job — and despite the pungent whiff of financial scandal always trailing him.
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Our tour of the two northernmost miles included what was once a Gilded Age enclave in Inwood, where Broadway is flanked by idiosyncratic historical sites that are not only neglected by most visitors' guides, but eclipsed by the street's commercial bustle.
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Wilderness lodges in Aroostook and Washington Counties helped create the concept of domestic travel in America in the late 1800s, when wealthy tycoons of the Gilded Age rode the trains they built to Augusta and Bangor to hunt and fish.
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Carr's Gilded Age version of a master sleuth is Dr. Laszlo Kreisler ("Inglourious Basterds'" Daniel Bruhl), a criminal psychologist who applies nascent scientific techniques -- like profiling and forensics -- to the investigation, which involves the gruesome murder of young male prostitutes.
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Today, as the party of Trump traffics in nativism, racism, archaic views of women's and gay rights, with political and economic policies lifted from Gilded Age robber barons, it is useful to remember the words of another, far wiser Republican.
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Not only was the Gilded Age a time of great technological changes, a common feature over the last two centuries, but it saw the growth of the first real gigantic fortunes thanks to the stock market and very lax monopoly laws.
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The mistake of those who fought for these causes was to underestimate the fury of the backlash from moneyed interests to roll back those gains and to insist on establishing a new Gilded Age of war, inequality and rights denial.
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But despite my admiration for Steyerl, there's something holding me back from fully embracing Drill, a survey of the artist curated by Tom Eccles that's currently occupying the Gilded Age chambers and cavernous drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory.
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The scale of what comes next seems likely to rival key modern social, political and economic transformations, such as the post-Gilded Age of the early 1900s, the global Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Reagan-Thatcher revolution of the 1980s.
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Mehlman, the lobbyist, draws comparisons to the Progressive Era, the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, when a backlash against the Gilded Age produced a vast expansion of high schools, the direct election of senators, and the women's vote.
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If Kanders, Koch, and their fellow plutocrats seek to become the Andrew Carnegies, Henry Clay Fricks, and J.P. Morgans of the New Gilded Age, whitening their stains with the bleach of philanthropy, it is our job not to allow that to happen.
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Rodale told me that in her new series, she is shifting her focus from traditional Regency romance set in England to the Gilded Age in New York, where wealth disparity and income inequality coexist with a strong progressive movement and emerging feminist ideals.
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Soon after the Civil War, the US Army accelerated long-running efforts to expel Native Americans from ancestral lands across the continent, sometimes claiming to be fighting "barbarism and terrorism" as a pretext for Gilded Age projects of occupation and natural resource extraction.
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Fans of Gilded Age political economy got a rare treat this past weekend when in the course of a rambling two-hour discourse at the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual gathering President Donald Trump made reference to the Great Tariff Debate of 1888.
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I do think that there is a sense in which, like in the Gilded Age, there was a moment where media was very important, and there was a sense in which exposing the gap between the myth and reality was very important.
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In his forthcoming book The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America, Jack Kelly looks back at the clash of ideals in the Pullman era and compares it to what's going on today.
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VICE talked to Kelly to find out why the scenes from his book are so resonant in our current moment, why big business is always trying to screw over workers, and how much progress America has made on inequality since the Gilded Age.
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"If you go back to the rapaciousness and lawlessness of Gilded Age capitalism, it was the slow burn of public opinion that gradually gathered force and ultimately became the driving force that provided cover for dramatic new legislative and regulatory efforts," she said.
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Political scientists who use congressional votes to track ideology find that Republicans have moved drastically to the right over the past four decades, to the point where they are now more conservative than they were at the height of the Gilded Age.
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Back in the Gilded Age America's wealthiest families summered in Rhode Island, building themselves chateaux like the ones they saw in Europe, which are now known collectively as the Newport Mansions, and include the Vanderbilts' 70-room Breakers, the Marble House, and Rosecliff.
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Nonfiction Julian Fellowes may be adapting the "Downton Abbey" formula to a stateside setting, but why wait for his late-19th-century period piece, "The Gilded Age," when you can escape right now into the well-apportioned drawing rooms of the past?
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It would be nice to report a reassuring lesson in all this, but for many thousands in the Gilded Age, like the steelworkers whose strike was crushed just across the river from where I live in Pittsburgh, the endings were anything but happy.
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In our times, however — our Gilded Age of weirdness when some individuals wield the wealth of nations and some corporations wield the power of gods, to track us, manipulate us and sway our minds — he's something of an exemplar, a type, a paradigm.
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Also in 1890, two Gilded Age Fifth Avenue hotels rose across West 15th Street from each other: the mansard-roofed, brick-and-brownstone Wilbraham, so-called bachelor flats built on the site of two demolished brownstones, and the dignified, Neo-Renaissance Holland House.
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"The Gilded Age in New York: 1870-1910" (Hachette, $35) is a beguiling, lavishly illustrated book that — emerging from the center of the epoch, Madison Square — epitomizes what Ms. Crain calls the city's incredible energy and sense of its own greatness and destiny.
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Synthesizing into the wealth taxBy 2015, Zucman was sure of two things: tax enforcement was a policy choice, and American wealth inequality was at levels not seen since ahead of the Great Depression and during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
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"The Gilded Age" also explores the opulent lifestyles of business titans like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, contrasting that with the young farm workers and former slaves that migrated to the cities in pursuit of financial opportunities, rapidly doubling New York's population.
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I think that vast, vast inequality gaps — like the one we have right now, like the one we had the Gilded Age — change the kinds of things that people want in terms of class status, and things they think that they can have.
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In our times, however — our Gilded Age of weirdness when some individuals wield the wealth of nations and some corporations wield the power of gods, to track us, manipulate us and sway our minds — he's something of an exemplar, a type, a paradigm.
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Backdating the Gilded Age to 18963 may explain White's odd retrieval of the traditional malicious caricature of Ulysses S. Grant — the president who, with all his flaws and errors, did break the Ku Klux Klan — as an inept, money-struck coddler of corruption.
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If you were to have sat in the middle of New York in 1880, in the height of the American Gilded Age, then you would have looked around and seen a country that had just the most delinquent class of super rich.
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With New York experiencing a new gilded age, porte cochères are making a comeback in high-end buildings, like 565 Broome Street, where Mr. O'Connor is the resident manager and where the least-expensive apartment on the market is listed at $3.925 million.
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While it's unclear exactly what form of depravity the business offers — considering the Gilded Age setting anything from prostitution to opium is a possibility — John looks absolutely ashamed to be caught frequenting such an establishment by a well-to-do young woman like Sara.
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In the liberal historical imagination, the economic reforms of the Progressive Era and New Deal years in the first half of the 20th century — primarily higher taxes, stricter regulations of business and finance, and greater government investment in public enterprise — vanquished Gilded Age inequality.
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Had Trump read more deeply about the Gilded Age, he might know that the McKinley Tariff Act was unpopular and that its unpopularity, combined with the shockwaves of a financial crisis in England, led the Republicans to a crushing defeat in the 1890 midterms.
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This was true during the brutally violent attacks on striking workers at the height of the Gilded Age, it was true when the Supreme Court nearly killed the New Deal in the 1930s, and it was true after the last financial crisis in 2008.
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The 19th-century Brooklyn burial ground predates the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park, and was where Beaux Arts and Gilded Age sculptors exhibited some of their most moving work, and New Yorkers escaped the crowded city for a stroll among the tombs.
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Callahan, author of "The Givers: Wealth, Power and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age," told the Reuters Global Markets Forum on Monday that the activism was a sea change coming as a new generation of billionaires rise to prominence and governments scramble for money.
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Despite such hurdles, though, there is good reason to think that socialists and liberals can forge a Popular Front, one motivated by the need to confront a common enemy: a capitalist system that has returned America to the stark inequality of the Gilded Age.
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The two-hour Downtown History and Architecture Extravaganza (from $20) is a good first outing, covering St. Louis's start in 1764 as a French trading settlement; the Gilded Age boom when city merchants profited outfitting westward migrants; and the midcentury development of the Gateway Arch.
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While Democrats have recently tried to revive the spirit of the antimonopoly movements of the Gilded Age, this is an issue on which both parties might find common ground today — just as they did in the era of the trustbusting Republican President Teddy Roosevelt.
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The wealthy of the previous gilded age — think of the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford families, for instance — secured their fortunes in charitable foundations that then gave out small amounts of that money each year (traditionally, about 5 percent of their current assets) in grants.
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From 22016 until he retired in 2018, he narrated a cityscape that evolved from the mean streets of a record murder rate through the 2001 terrorist attack and the 2008 recession into what has been categorized, for better or worse, as another Gilded Age.
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Google and Facebook might not call to mind the belching smoke stacks and child laborers of the Industrial Revolution, but Zuboff argues that they're run by people who have turned out to be just as ruthless and profit-seeking as any Gilded Age tycoon.
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Mr. Lampert, a billionaire hedge fund manager, could avoid becoming the "cartoon character" his critics have painted him as, Judge Robert Drain said — a cross between Jay Gould, the Gilded Age robber baron, and Barney Fife, the blustery gullible sheriff on the "Andy Griffith" show.
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The era from 903 to 1896 is obviously interesting in its own right: it takes America from the end of the civil war, when the South lay shattered, to the height of the gilded age, when America was taking over from Britain as the world's mightiest economy.
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From this vantage point, a progressive income tax based on the ability to pay is the most practical way to ensure that the wealthy contribute their fair share to financing the government, particularly when wealth inequality has widened to the greatest levels since the Gilded Age.
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In November, the St. Regis Shanghai Jingan hosted a "midnight supper" for the fashion designer Jason Wu. The event, which, according to a press release, was inspired by the late-night soirées of the Gilded Age, necessitated a one-night-only renovation of the hotel's upstairs bar.
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The main reading room of the library's main building — arguably the hub of humanities research in New York, and no small tourist attraction in its Gilded Age majesty — has been closed since May 228, when a plaster rosette 22014 inches in diameter dropped from the ornate ceiling.
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It's never been a secret (the year it opened, this newspaper declared it "undoubtedly the most magnificent apartment of the kind in this country"), but for decades its glories have been concealed beneath bad repairs, inadequate lighting, brown paint and a patina of Gilded Age cigar smoke.
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It has, of course, always had elites, whether they were the wealthiest merchants of the colonial era, the largest slave plantation owners of the Old South, the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age, or the professional managerial class and hyper-wealthy financiers and CEOs of today.
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So he did what any jeweler looking to make a splash at a world's fair in the Gilded Age might: He made a bedazzled iris corsage the size of an actual iris, with a golden stem and dozens of Montana sapphires and demantoid garnets for the bud.
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In a major victory for the Frick Collection, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday approved the museum's latest plan to expand and renovate its 1914 Gilded Age mansion — the institution's fourth such attempt to gain more space for its exhibitions and public programs.
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A historical perspective on privacy in America is provided by "None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age" (University of Chicago Press, 2019) by Lawrence Cappello, a professor of constitutional history at the University of Alabama.
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In our age, the rich and powerful have done something so much more ingenious than the robber barons of the first Gilded Age: they have claimed ownership of the idea of saving the world, of helping out and of giving back, of empowering others to rise.
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For the most part, this effort, if successful, would take away a power voters have that they seem to like having, and give it to a group of politicians who don't want it, all in an effort to recreate the political problems of the Gilded Age.
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In that spirit, here are five NYC landmarks of visual culture often overlooked, one for each borough: The subway stations on the former IRT line in Manhattan, which date from 1899 to 183, are the city's oldest (surviving) underground transit, and they have the Gilded Age glamor to match.
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The Gilded Age in New York is strewn with these anecdotes, such as the low brow oddities of P. T. Barnum's American Museum and the wax dioramas of the Musée Eden, as well as the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a focus on European art.
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Sculptors of the Gilded Age, beguiled by the beauty known as "the world's most perfectly formed woman," chose her as their model for statues that grace public buildings, bridges, fountains and mansions to this day -- including monuments to war and peace, to women, to memory and even to firefighters.
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Though America has gone through periods of truth decay in the past, write RAND's authors—the heyday of yellow journalism during the Gilded Age or the turmoil of the Vietnam war and Watergate—it has not been accompanied by such stark disagreement over objective facts and scientific truths.
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These difficult questions, paired with the sumptuous, nearly obsessive period piece details of Alienist's Gilded Age New York City setting, prove in a TV landscape filled to the brim with ultra-calculating murderers, the Daniel Brühl and Dakota Fanning-starrer, premiering January 22, is worthy of your obsession.
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When the new headquarters of The New York Herald, the flamboyant publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s monument to the Gilded Age, opened on Herald Square in 1895, a colleague warned Bennett that it was perhaps imprudent to lease the land for the building for only 30 years.
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Another filtration of P&D was evident in The Neo-Victorians: Contemporary Artists Revive Gilded-Age Glamour, at the Hudson River Museum, accompanied by Jennifer Angus's "Dying of Curiosity," (2018) a site-specific installation in Glenview (the adjacent historic home) which also emphasized the decorative with some patterning elements.
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The immediacy of the materials and ideas presented in that exhibition made me question why I was heading up to Acquavella's Gilded Age townhouse in the first place: nothing seemed farther from the contemporary frequencies emanating from Formula 224 than the malerisch mystique enveloping Freud like stale cigarette smoke.
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In the new Gilded Age, the city has pushed up for living space, with ever-taller buildings — and eye-popping prices, led by the $212 million condominium on Billionaires' Row, as the area south of Central Park and bracketed by super-tall buildings has come to be known.
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Big Ticket The imposing limestone apartment house at 998 Fifth Avenue has been home to some of the world's most recognizable names since its opening in 1912 — from luminaries of the Gilded Age, like the Guggenheims and Vanderbilts, to modern-day billionaires, like the Ukrainian-born businessman Leonard Blavatnik.
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One might have expected preservationists to be pleased with the Frick Collection's latest iteration of its expansion project, announced in April, given that the design — by the architect Annabelle Selldorf — calls for preserving the gated garden that upended the museum's previous attempt to renovate its 1914 Gilded Age mansion.
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Some of the artists of the day—including surrealist Marcel Duchamp and painter John Sloan—decided to further affirm the neighborhood's countercultural bona fides by staging a coup, of sorts, of the Washington Square Arch, and proclaim its independence from the rest of Gilded Age, capitalist New York City.
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In one of the most startling developments of American history, the Reconstruction-era Congress passed the 14th Amendment to try to establish black people's civil rights, only to see Gilded Age courts rule that the 14th Amendment's reference to "due process" prohibited all kinds of economic regulations — including civil rights laws!
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Tim Wu thinks it's time to break up Facebook (September 4th, 2018) Best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality" and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu has a new book called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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"There was the downtown, music-driven club world," Mr. Netto said, "and the uptown, neo-Gilded Age, neo-Rothschild fantasy" that was erupting along Park Avenue, where Mr. Buatta and Mr. Hampton were creating blood red habitats with acres of damask and armies of old masters for their robber baron clients.
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One reason for its great success was the supply of cheap labor—"In the slaughterhouse, someone was always willing to take your place," Specht observes—and the difficulty of challenging the industry's captains in the last gilded age when capital could rely on the government to side with it against labor.
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As Richard White tells us in his excellent volume on Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, published as part of the also excellent Oxford History of the United States, between seventy-eight and a hundred and sixty-one black men were lynched every year in the decade from 21963 to 21964.
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With a Massachusetts schooling, culminating, inevitably, at Harvard, Forbes was a typical product of the generation who believed that Gilded Age materialism could be redeemed by the "Western civilization" that the social critic and art professor Charles Eliot Norton eulogized in the art-history lectures that Forbes attended as an undergraduate.
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" In "The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age" (the latest volume in Oxford's history of the United States), the Stanford historian Richard White notes how most Republicans "sincerely embraced free labor and continued to believe in its transformative capacity and egalitarian assumptions.
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Of course, helicopter travel is fun if you have the money to pay for it, which would leave most New Yorkers sharing the pain on the ground while the privileged fly overhead — yet another manifestation of the income inequality that has come to define life in a new Gilded Age.
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"(Sanders) has been the catalyst for a new wave of progressive candidates, ideas and policies that seek to reverse this new 'gilded age' that has denied millions of Americans the better life they deserve," Wu said Friday night, channeling the candidate who would follow him onstage a few minutes later.
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This windswept outcropping, peering over the Atlantic, was a Gilded Age haven where the wealthy built mansions known by their names, not addresses: The Elms, Marble House and, most famous of all, The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II as a family retreat and a Renaissance-inspired monument to their success.
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In the last Gilded Age—when powerful robber barons controlled our economy, merging their holdings into ever larger monopolies; when working people struggled to stay housed and fed, and children were uneducated and destined to their own lives of toil—we reaffirmed the commitment made to us in the Constitution.
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Of course, helicopter travel is fun if you have the money to pay for it, which would leave most New Yorkers sharing the pain on the ground while the privileged fly overhead — yet another manifestation of the income inequality that has come to define life in a new Gilded Age.
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Even those not directly affected know that there is a new zeitgeist, a new Gilded Age, a new quasi-aristocratic class of the wealthy, privileged, hyper-networked tech elite, making six figures straight out of school, leaping from one plum job in one alpha city to another, exiting startups with millions or more.
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When: Opens Saturday, September 3, 6–9pm Where: Torrance Art Museum (3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, California) The Gildless Age is a group show that aims to connect our current economic, racial, and environmental crises with the period of prosperity at the turn of the 19th century known as the Gilded Age.
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Ulysses Grant Dietz, Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts Emeritus at the the Newark Museum tells Hyperallergic that "Everyday Objects" fits a familiar pattern of Tiffany seeking the attention of customers who covet the company's "blue bag" cachet rather than the timeless quality of the objects manufactured in its Gilded Age heyday.
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They point to the stark economic contrasts in the two eras: industrialization, rising working-class wages, and violent class conflict in the first Gilded Age; de-industrialization, falling working-class wages, and what Fraser calls "acquiescence" to exploitation — including modern phenomenons like mass stock ownership, the gig economy, mass indebtedness, and more — today.
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When Kate Griffin was an adventurous collegian, she and a half-dozen friends spirited by boat across the waters of the St. Lawrence River to the small island dominated by Boldt Castle — a testament to true Gilded Age romance or a tycoon's folly, depending on point of view — and spent the night there.
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This was the Western outpost of a national adult education movement specifically created to combine culture and the great outdoors: Gilded Age travelers flocked here to meet visiting artists, listen to lectures by mutton-chopped philosophers or hear opera sung by visiting European divas, then go hiking in the idyllic natural setting.
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The economy boomed throughout the war, and set the city up to come booming out of the war they had opposed the whole time into a huge post-war time of growth and development, the Gilded Age, which set it up to become the capital of the world in the 20th century.
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History — from Ancient Rome through the Gilded Age; from the Russian Revolution to the Great Compression of incomes across the West in the middle of the 20th century — suggests that reversing the trend toward greater concentrations of income, in the United States and across the world, might be, in fact, nearly impossible.
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But by the turn of the century, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era that it kicked off, that government had been transformed from a small, clientelistic one that awarded positions on the basis of patronage into a much larger professionalized and merit-based bureaucracy, according to Francis Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay.
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Long before LuLaRoe and DoTerra clogged up our social feeds with patterned leggings and essential oils, or Mary Kay gifted its signature pink Cadillacs to top sellers, Avon — which was originally founded in 1886 as the California Perfume Company — sold a promise of upward mobility to women shut out of the US's Gilded Age.
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Fortunately, as part of "Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age," the Met is also presenting in neighboring galleries a temporary two-part exhibition focusing on individual works by Mr. Schastey and by Herter Brothers, one of his chief competitors, along with a selection of tables, chairs and cabinets by other makers of the period.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In one of the many licentious anecdotes from Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic, the Gilded Age artist throws a party in his Gramercy Park "House of Fantasy" so raucous that his neighbors across the street — who happen to be painter George Bellows and his family — call the cops.
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Democrats will run against the highly unpopular tax bill, which so heavily favors the wealthiest Americans and largest corporations that it is reminiscent of the Gilded Age policies of the late 19th century that fomented major income inequality and preceded the presidency of the progressive populist Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who would be a Democrat today.
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Like Michael Lewis's "The Fifth Risk," a recent book that shows how something most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about — government bureaucracy — is consequential (and potentially terrifying), Wu's "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age" is a surprisingly rousing treatment of another presumably boring subject: mergers and acquisitions.
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Built as a summer home for the Gilded Age businessman Moses H. Cone and his wife, Bertha, the house — known as Flat Top Manor — was financed by the Cone family's busy textile mills, which would go on to supply denim to Levi Strauss & Co., among other clothing manufacturers, for much of the 20th century.
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Yet following those Gilded Age years as the "American Venus," she had a failed silent film career (which was mainly based on her titillating full nudity, a first time for a Hollywood film), was caught in a murder scandal, attempted suicide by poison, and was ultimately committed to a mental institution until her death in 1996.
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I learned that the French progenitors of the Statue of Liberty wanted it to symbolize a liberal, humanitarian politics, steering between right-wing reactionaries and the left-wing radicals of the Paris Commune, and that many of its American funders were small donors out to shame decadent Gilded Age robber barons who wouldn't contribute to a civic monument.
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Income among the top 21.6% has steadily crept up, and the cohort now control nearly 270% of all income, reaching levels similar to the "Gilded Age" before World War I. But if the administration is truly worried about the suffering of middle-class Americans, the real answer is to increase social support for re-skilling the labor workforce.
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Gottleib), then her rise in the large, dark and expensive houses she enters through her brother's dazzling little shows of memory and cognition (he talks about the Punic Wars!) and through her suitor, a stubborn, liberal-leaning wealthy man who is attracted to Chaya, and even more to her squashed cabbage-leaf role in his Gilded Age world.
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While the headline economic statistics like gross domestic product, low unemployment, wages on a slow but steady upward path have been healthy, other indicators like stagnating wages, Gilded Age levels of inequality, and communities and older industries that have been left behind together create an obligation to think ambitiously beyond the assumptions of Clinton- and Obama-era economics.
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That tumble of clauses pushing you forward, letting you get tangled up in the syntax and luxuriate in the syrupy, gleaming wood; the nerdy joy of throwing in the highboys along with the more mundane kinds of furniture; that last evocative image of Gilded Age New York: it's hedonistic to read and it carries a nearly physical pleasure.
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Try to calculate the share that those three "bad trade agreements" played in the processes of manufacturing job loss, of widening income inequality, and the coming of the overclass of the Second Gilded Age, and — as long as you calculate honestly — you get a share of responsibility of less than 5 percent, and usually less than 1 percent.
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He's in the midst of casting and finding locations for his next project, "The Gilded Age," a series set in 1880s New York City for HBO, as well adapting his 2016 historical novel Belgravia into a six-part series for ITV and Epix (both projects are also produced by Naeme), so he already has a pretty full plate.
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Created about a decade after George's death and paired with an unprecedented level of government infrastructural subsidy to support adoption, this technology unlocked a much bigger supply of inexpensive, greenfield land for development, enabled the formation of a broad-based, property-owning democracy and undercut the concentrated power of the urban land-owning class from the 19th century Gilded Age.
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In the Gilded Age mansion of the Frick Collection, in a room devoted to Jean-Honoré Fragonard's bucolic wall panels called "The Progress of Love," two young men meet and begin a flirtatious debate about the four stages of love illustrated in the 18th-century canvases, from a painted couple's first pastoral encounter to their joyful reminiscing over old love letters.
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In this excerpt from Tim Wu's new book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," the author says that after the fast and chaotic late-90s and early 2000s, people assumed that bigness — the economics of scale — no longer really mattered in the new economy, and that there could be no such thing as a lasting monopoly on the internet.
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The proposals offered by Sanders during the 2016 campaign are positively revolutionary, in the sense that Thomas Jefferson was revolutionary in 1776, compared to the Gilded-Age policies from Trump Republicans in the White House and Congress that lift the lives of the few at the top and offer little good and much harm to the rest of the nation.
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Casting an eye across modern history, he traced a turn from a world view that he called Consciousness I (the outlook of local farmers, self-directed workers, and small-business people, reaching a crisis in the exploitations of the Gilded Age) to what he called Consciousness II (the outlook of a society of systems, hierarchies, corporations, and gray flannel suits).
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