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How the Gilded Age's wealth stress-tested democracy
In the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, industrialization created eye-popping fortunes virtually overnight. That new wealth also produced new questions. "The big story of the Gilded Age is not only about these new concentrations of wealth, but the concentrations of power that that produced," Pulitzer ...



