THE GILDED AGE

• The gilded age was an age of great industrial and economic growth
• Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before
• But there was also a great deal of political corruption
• Corruption extended to the highest levels of government
• While many Americans lived in great wealth, many others lived in poverty

TWAIN AND GILDED AGE

• Twain was born November 30, 1835 and died April 21, 1910
• Twain wrote a book call the gilded age: a tale of today
• The name gilded age means wasteful and ridiculous excess
• It's also the contrast between an ideal "Golden Age," and a less worthy "Gilded Age,"
• Twins book ridiculed the times and the politicians of this time

Mark twain was a humorist and a writer
He is known as one of the best American writers.
-"What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?--dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must."
-- Mark Twain-1871

- in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to write several novels, including two major classics of American literature, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America

Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath

Works sited-
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=9
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html