N Gilded Age Politics n C. 1876—1900. Gilded Age Politics n The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Warner (1873) n Political equilibrium n Civil service.
The Politics of the Gilded Age. Themes of Gilded Age (1869-1889) n Politics: hard v. soft $, tariff, corruption, patronage & trusts n Industrialism: railroads,
