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The Gilded Age In New York, 1870 - 1910 (Hardcover)
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The Gilded Age In New York, 1870 - 1910 (Hardcover)
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Mark Twain coined the term the "Gilded Age" for this period of
growth and extravagance, experienced most dramatically in New York
City from the 1870s to 1910. More than half of America's
millionaires lived in the city. Previously unimaginable sums of
money were made and spent, while poor immigrants toiled away in
tenements. Author Esther Crain writes, "There was an incredible
energy, a sense of greatness and destiny. Things were literally
going up-skyscrapers, elevated train tracks, new neighborhoods and
parks. Accompanying all of that was an equal amount of greed and
lust. Crime, vice, political scandals-the Gilded Age produced an
abundance of depravity." The Gilded Age in New York City covers
daily life for the rich, poor, and the burgeoning middle class; the
influx of immigrants which caused the city's population to
quadruple in 40 years; how new-found leisure time was spent in
places such as Coney Island and Central Park; crimes that shocked
the city and altered the police force; the rise of social services;
and the city's physical growth both skyward and outward toward the
five boroughs. Through words and amazing, rarely seen images, Crain
captures between covers the metamorphic story of city at the center
of the world.
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