Gilded Ages in America
ABSTRACT
Conferees discussed the Gilded Age, similarities that exist with our own age, and the lessons we may draw about how best to protect the ideal of a free society today.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Filler, Louis, eds. Late Nineteenth-Century American Liberalism. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962.
Garraty, John A., eds. The Transformation of American Society, 1868-1900. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Tindall, George B., eds. A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist Leaders. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Bensel, Richard Franklin. The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Folsom, Burton W., Jr. The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America. Herndon: Young America’s Foundation, 2007.
Friedman, Milton. Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: an Economist’s Protest. New York: Thomas Horton, 1983.
Godkin, E. L. “The Eclipse of Liberalism.” The Nation (August 9, 1900): 1.
Hays, Samuel P. The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914, 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Kazin, Michael. The Populist Persuasion: An American History. Revised Edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916. New York: The Free Press, 1977.
Mellon, Andrew W. Taxation: The People’s Business. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.
Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Rockefeller, John D. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909.
Roosevelt, Theodore. “The New Nationalism.” Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910.
Rove, Karl. The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015.
Sumner, William Graham. On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner. Edited by Robert C. Bannister. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1992.
Veblen, Thorstein. The Vested Interests, and the Common Man, (The Modern Point of View and the New Order). New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919.