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A Second Gilded Age? The Promises and Perils of an Analogy: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2020

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Special Issue: A Second Gilded Age?
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2020

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