This author coined the term “the Gilded Age” to describe the period in America from 1870 to 1900.
- Emily Dickinson
- Mark Twain
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Walt Whitman
Mark Twain. Twain’s 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, satirized the era with serious social and economic problems concealed by thin gold plate, or gilding.
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