Gilded Age
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Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Gilded Age titans did more than build railroads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
To some, the multimillion-dollar party that Kozlowski gave on Sardinia to celebrate his wife’s birthday—replete with a vodka-spewing ice sculpture fashioned after Michelangelo’s David—was a modern echo of the lavish celebrations of the Gilded Age.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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