Elbert Hubbard was a Gilded Age original, his eccentricities exaggerated by a Dutchboy haircut and ubiquitous floppy tie.
It was a victory of Gilded Age capitalism (enforced perhaps by the railroads, which made indefinite isolation an unrealistic goal) over Great Awakening spiritualism.
Augustine as a sunny haven for the rich of the Gilded Age and built a gigantic hotel there in 1888.
Today, the 2, 600-acre gated enclave, situated some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, boasts century-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a number of Gilded-Age mansions designed by well-known architects of the day.
These policies have meant foreclosures, unemployment, downsizing, and a generally lower quality of life for most of us while the very rich enjoy a prosperity not seen since the Gilded Age.
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Do you think she could have provided better for herself at twenty years of age just before a gilded wedding carriage bore her toward her unthinkable future?
Chalk it up to a backlash against austere boutique hotels, or to the current interest in multigenerational family travel, but the Adirondack "great camp"--that rustic outpost of the Gilded Age--is enjoying a renaissance as a travel destination.
The wealthy live in a more plutocratic world then they have since the Gilded Age.
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The estate tax offers a modest counterweight against the development of a new plutocracy to rival the industrial barons of America's Gilded Age.
In this, he may be the perfect impresario for this modern gilded age: He has convinced partygoers that they are attending a revolution, and has invited would-be revolutionaries to attend a party.
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