The Gilded Age - Overture to the American Century
                                
                                
                             
                            
                         
                            
                            
                        The Gilded Age is the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the era of rapid economic growth in the United States between the 1870s and about 1900. This book looks at how this period presaged our own time. Photographs, political cartoons, engravings and other ephemera help bring this fascinating period into focus.