Sarah Colt’s “The Gilded Age” takes a look at the rapid industrialization and growth, as well as the exploding wealth gap between the capital class and the working class which defined the late nineteenth century in the United States, and James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss their takeaways from documentary, which originally aired in 2018 on PBS, including what drove the mass accumulations of wealth, how such wealth can warp society and politics, and how this period may mirror what is happening in the U.S. today.
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The Gilded Age Viewing Links:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/gilded-age/
https://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Gilded-Age-DVD/dp/B077JQF4GW
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/american-experience-the-gilded-age/id1334579180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpYzFtxfjU
