Carnegie and Rockefeller to the wholesale slaughter of the buffalo to Booker T. Washington.
An account of the United States in the 1890s, what the author calls the Reckless Decade and what historians have named the Gilded Age. In his prologue, Brand writes During the 1890s, Americans agonized over what the twentieth century about to begin held for their country. To many of them, America’s finest hours were behind…
