Gilded Age America

February 14, 2018 | SuzyQ
The Gilded Age : a tale of today by Mark Twain
The reckless decade : America in the 1890s by H. W Brands
1877 : America's year of living violently by Michael A Bellesiles
Fraud of the century : Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the stolen election of 1876 by Roy Morris
Murdering McKinley : the making of Theodore Roosevelt's America by Eric Rauchway
Age of betrayal : the triumph of money in America, 1865-1900 by Jack Beatty
Scoundrels in law : the trials of Howe & Hummel, lawyers to the gangsters, cops, starlets, and rakes who made the Gilded Age by Cait Murphy
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson
Dark horse : the surprise election and political murder of President James A. Garfield by Kenneth D Ackerman
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt : the story of a daughter and a mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Empire by default : the Spanish-American War and the dawn of the American century by Ivan Musicant
The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair by Margaret S. Creighton

The 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, meant to herald the twentieth century, went tragically, spectacularly, awry. In 1901, Buffalo, New York, the eighth biggest city in America, wanted to launch the new century with the Pan American Exposition. It would showcase the Western hemisphere and bring millions of people to western New York. With Niagara Falls as a drawing card and with stunning colors and electric lights, promoters believed it would be bigger, better, and--literally--more brilliant than Chicago's White City of 1893. Weaving together narratives of both notorious and forgotten figures, Margaret Creighton unveils the fair's big tragedy and its lesser-known scandals.

The war lovers : Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the rush to empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas
When the Astors owned New York : blue bloods and grand hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
American colossus : the triumph of capitalism, 1865-1900 by H. W. Brands
American Eve : Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the birth of the "It" girl, and the crime of the century by Paula M. Uruburu
The gilded age [videodisc]

A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life..

The Gilded Age : 1876-1912 overture to the American century by Alan Axelrod
The Gilded Age by Joel Shrock