New York's scoundrels, scalawags, and scrappers : the city in the last decade of the Gilded Age /

"The 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a "Golden Age," it was a veneer, and although the decade was specifically called "The Gay Nineties," the gaiety was generally reserved for the gilt-edged, top ten percenters. If you were a common working stiff - or wo...

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