The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age
Title:
The Gilded Age
Quality:
HD
Released:
Feb 06, 2018
Casts:
Oliver Platt

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The Gilded Age

Synopsis The Gilded Age

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.

  • GBH
  • PBS American Experience
  • Oliver Platt

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