The gilded age was an influential book written by mark twain and charles dudley warner. remember from the tutorial in this unit that “gild means "to coat with a thin layer of gold." the object's real value is artificially increased by its attractive, yet deceptive, appearance” (edmentum 2018 courseware).

some of the “forgotten” people you’ve learned about were: ulysses grant, jay gould, william 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 influence a good or bad thing? explain.