The Gilded Age
Gilded is not golden
- Documentary
Overview
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.
Keywords
- american experience
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 6, 2018
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- english
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- WGBH,PBS American Experience
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site