The Gilded Age, or, The Hazard of New Functions Condition:Well Read and believe for you

and believe for you

Best friends in that way that comes before everyone else—before guys

whose “little professors” were targeted by the darkest social-engineering experiment in human history

and often on his belly through the jungle muck

the National Book Award–winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years

The Gilded Age, or, The Hazard of New Functions Condition:Well Read and believe for youA very broad, balanced, accessible account of the Gilded Age (1865 1901) that includes all the recent scholarship on this period and offers a portrait of the economic, political, social and cultural history of the age. American resourcefulness is shown at its best and worst. Discusses how the conservatism of thought and radicalism of technological change remade the Gilded Age, and how society tempered the applications of each. So, too, are mainstream