THE AGE OF GOLD
America's Gilded Age, 1870–1900By Edith Greenleaf Burnham
Length5h 38m
About this audiobook
**Robber barons in top hats. Tenements with no windows.** The richest fortunes in human history rising over the poorest slums on earth. America's Gilded Age was the most contradictory chapter in the nation's story — and the one that shaped your world more than any other.
You've heard the names: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan. You know there was something called "yellow journalism" and a Spanish-American War. But the textbook flattens the most explosive thirty years of American history into a few dates and statues, leaving you without the real story: how a handful of men remade the economy, how immigrants and workers fought back, and how the gilded surface hid a country tearing itself apart. To understand modern America — Wall Street, inequality, the labor fight, the urban giant — you have to understand the Gilded Age. And soundbites won't get you there.
This book will.
**THE AGE OF GOLD: America's Gilded Age, 1870–1900** brings the era to thunderous life — the titans and the tenements, the genius and the grime, the glitter and the rot beneath it.
**Inside, you will discover:**
- **HOW** Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan built the modern American economy
- **WHY** the Gilded Age produced both extraordinary wealth and explosive poverty
- **WHAT** really happened during the Populist revolt, the Pullman Strike, and the Panic of 1893
- **HOW** Jim Crow, mass immigration, and women's labor reshaped American life
- **WHY** the Spanish-American War launched America's empire — and the fierce voices who opposed it
This isn't a parade of statues. It's the real Gilded Age — its brilliance and its rot — laid bare.
The age was gilded. Now see what was underneath.
**Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to start THE AGE OF GOLD today.**
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author’s Note
3Prologue: Glitter and Grime
4PART ONE: THE TITANS (1865–1900)
5Chapter 1: Cornelius Vanderbilt — The Commodore and the Railroad Empire
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6Chapter 2: John D. Rockefeller — Standard Oil and the Modern Corporation
7Chapter 3: Andrew Carnegie — Steel, Libraries, and the Gospel of Wealth
8Chapter 4: J. P. Morgan — The Banker Who Ruled America
9PART TWO: THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER (1865–1900)
10Chapter 5: The Railroad Nation — Building the National Economy
11Chapter 6: The Rise of the City — Urbanization and the Urban Crisis
12Chapter 7: The New Immigration — From Ellis Island to the Factory Floor
13Chapter 8: Working Class America — Labor, Capital, and Conflict
14PART THREE: POLITICS AND REFORM (1870–1900)
15Chapter 9: The Spoils System — Corruption, Bosses, and Machine Politics
16Chapter 10: The Populist Revolt — Farmers Against the Gilded Age
17Chapter 11: The Money Question — Gold, Silver, and the Currency Wars
18Chapter 12: The Social Gospel — Reform, Religion, and Jane Addams
19PART FOUR: RACE, GENDER, AND EMPIRE (1877–1900)
20Chapter 13: Jim Crow Rising — The Architecture of Segregation
21Chapter 14: Women in the Gilded Age — Domesticity, Suffrage, and Work
22Chapter 15: The Spanish-American War — America's Imperial Moment
23Chapter 16: The Anti-Imperialists — Mark Twain and the Critics of Empire
24PART FIVE: THE CULTURE OF THE GILDED AGE (1870–1900)
25Chapter 17: Consumer Culture — Department Stores, Advertising, and Mass Markets
26Chapter 18: The Press — Hearst, Pulitzer, and Yellow Journalism
27Chapter 19: Technology and Invention — Edison, Bell, and the Second Industrial Revolution
28Chapter 20: Education and Ideas — Universities, Science, and American Thought
29PART SIX: CRISIS AND LEGACY (1890–1907)
30Chapter 21: The Panic of 1893 — Economic Collapse and Political Crisis
31Chapter 22: Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike — Protest at the System's Limits
32Chapter 23: The Progressive Response — Reform After the Gilded Age
33Chapter 24: Mark Twain's Verdict — The Gilded Age in History and Memory
34Epilogue: What the Gilded Age Made
35Acknowledgments
36Selected Bibliography
37About the Author
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