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“In some ways, the late nineteenth century was a time of spectacular excess, of brass-knuckled business and shady politics, a long national carnival of fraud and bribery. These qualities appalled middle-class reformers and some later historians, who gave the times such labels as the Gilded Age, the Era of Excess, and the Great Barbecue.”
“Wealth generated by Wall Street and industrial labor fueled a housing boom of opulent Fifth Avenue mansions, gable-roof apartment flats, and rows of shabby tenements.”
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