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(More customer reviews)As improbable as it might be, this book makes what many people consider the dullest period of American history come alive. I was one of Dr Summers' students at UK in the early 'nineties, and while he was one of the most aggravating and obnoxoious humans I've ever run across, he does know his stuff and he knows how to write.
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A very broad, balanced, accessible account of the GildedAge (1865-1901) that includes all the recent scholarship on this period andoffers a portrait of the economic, political, social and cultural historyof the age. American resourcefulness is shown at its bestand worst. Discusses how the conservatism of thought and radicalism oftechnological change remade the Gilded Age, and how society tempered theapplications of each. So, too, are mainstream politics and religion.Thisis a rich, colorful narrative about a complex period in American history.
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