“The most astonishing thing for historians is that nobody in the Gilded Age economy — except for the very rich — wanted to ..

“The most astonishing thing for historians is that nobody in the Gilded Age economy — except for the very rich — wanted to live in the Gilded ... The results were quickly poor for the economy and for ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said repeatedly, “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913.