The Steel Beneath the Gold "Gild"ed: To Make seem more attractive or valuable than it is" -Webster's New World Dictionary Between the Civil War and the early 20th century, an era of growth, wealth, and power was born. In this era, the United States became an Industrial powerhouse among...
This was a highly mechanized, industrial age in which people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. ... The genesis of the Episcopacy at the end of the 19th century represented the merger of what appeared to be an irreconcilable conflict between two rival elite groups: the old pre-industrial New England - based on upper-class norms, with its high-minded, non-urban mores, and the big, rough New York based - Gilded Age rich. ... (Hunter 1953 ) Much of the capitalist wealth of America today has been created by a dynasty of some the nation's ric...
