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The Gilded Age: A History in Documents

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The Gilded Age: A History in Documents - Greenwood, Janette Thomas
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Drawing from the letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, journals, and speeches of Gilded Age Americans, author Janette Greenwood arranges all of these voices to tell a story more vibrant and textured than the simple tale of robber baron versus starving poor. In addition to these voices, visuals--such as advertisements, maps, political cartoons, and a picture essay on Jacob Riiss urban photographs--create a kaleidoscopic view of the quarter century when diverse Americans struggled for the same goal: a better way of life, with ...

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The Gilded Age: A History in Documents 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195166385

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