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Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel of the same name about five wealthy American women during the Gilded Age got the prestige TV treatment with this Katherine Jakeways-created drama.

We’ve already worked through the theory that Donald Trump is reviving the expansionist foreign policy of Gilded Age America and William McKinley, who isn’t just a deeply inappropriate presidential role model for the 2020s but also an inexplicably strange one.

In the early 20th century’s Gilded Age, the best-selling books weren’t the ones we consider classics, but Horatio Alger’s inspirational pulp.

Particularly during the Gilded Age, you see a lot of rhetoric around sinners deserving their poverty.

An entire modern artistic genre — documentary photography — was weaned on the growing social effort to rein in the abusive practice of forcing children to toil in sweatshops and on farms in the wake of the Gilded Age.