“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The country, it seemed, was on the verge of a second civil war, this one over industrial slavery. But Frick was a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age. Justice” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age. — David Brock Copy Share Image
Travel back in time, Laugh till you cry, Dig for buried treasure, Experience the thrill of rock-climbing, Outsmart the crouds, Take in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A European visitor in the 1880s remarked that the only sense not offended by American cooking was hearing.” — Richard White Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, Madame, but the president runs the country, not a factory. Your time is up! So please move along so that… — Rich DiSilvio Copy Share Image
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken. — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
“She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can.… — Candida Martinelli Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
“Prom was more about acting out some weird facsimile of adulthood: dress up like a tacky wedding party, hold hands and behave… — Dave Cullen Copy Share Image
