from walterhistory

In reading this book, the author seems to wander from event to event with little attention to the need for a cohesive unit. If the author intended this, he succeeded. This book is the least productive of the Oxford History of the US series. Trying to be politically correct so as to avoid being ac...

from mnicol

After about 700 pages of this magnificent “all in” history, I was just reading to finish it. Somewhere I lost the plot. Maybe re-read it, after trying some of the recommended books in the extensive bibliographic essay (which should be read early on as it is a guide to the themes that are develope...

from RickGeissal

This book taught me a lot about the period 1865-1895, Reconstruction & the Gilded Age. I found it fascinating. A lot happened during that period, and a lot of it created the world of the 20th & 21st centuries.

from gregdehler

A tour de force history of the Gilded Age by a master craftsman of historical writing. If you want to know why people refer to our own age as the second Gilded Age, read this book. If you want to know when and how businesses and corporations became so powerful in the United States, read this book...

from gregdehler

A tour de force history of the Gilded Age by a master craftsman of historical writing. If you want to know why people refer to our own age as the second Gilded Age, read this book. If you want to know when and how businesses and corporations became so powerful in the United States, read this book...