The Gilded Age
By Charles Dudley Warner
- Release Date: 2006-08-19
- Genre: European History
Description
The Gilded Age, is a historic story set in the time of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency which is highly critical of his administration. Portion of the novel was later published separately and some play adaptations were based on his character Colonel Sellers. Although the book was not particularly well-received, its title provided the name by which the post-Civil War boom era in American history is still known.