The Myth of a 'Second Gilded Age'

By James Livingston. Do we live in a "Second Gilded Age," a reiteration of the late 19th century, when "robber barons" like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and J.P. Morgan soaked the poor, bought the Senate, and swashbuckled their way into the imagination of Mark Twain, who coined the term in 1873. More...