The gilded age was an influential book written by mark twain and charles dudley womer. remember from
the tutorial in this unit that "gild means to coat with a thin layer of gold. the object's real value is artifically
increased by its attractive yet deceptive appearance
some of the "forgotten" people you've learned about werer ulysses grant jay gould, willam w. belknap
orville babcock, jim fisk boss tweed, rutherford b. hayes james garfield chester a. arthur grover
cleveland, and benjamin harrison.
if you could interview anyone of these men who would it be and why in what ways do we still find
evidence of their influence in the 21st century? how is this intuence o good or bad thing? explain