The Gilded Age 1870- 1900, Estates of Ultra Wealthy Americans, Newport, RI, Palm Beach, FL. New Era?

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- Entrance into the opulent mansions of Newport, Rhode Island was once reserved only for the ultra rich. Today, visitors to this seaside town can get their own glimpse at what life might have been like during the Gilded Age. Now anyone can tour these historic one-of-a-kind homes.

Featuring 3 of Newports famous Mansions, this video takes visitors through the famed Breaker's Mansion, Marble House and The Elms.

- Palm Beach: Where the Gilded Age never ended. CBS Sunday Morning, Feb 5, 2017. The first thing you should know about Palm Beach is that it's an island (unto itself) - the most exclusive town in America, and (according to writer Laurence Leamer) America's first "gated community." Mo Rocca takes a tour of the city that rose from Florida's tropical wilderness, which today features one of the richest commercial strips in America, and is home to Mar-a-Lago, the "Winter White House" resort of President Donald Trump.

- Are we entering another Gilded Age? Thom Hartmann, 2017.

[SergeStorms]

1. The GQP wants to take it back a bit further than that.

They want to return to the slave trade days, when wealthy White men could own Black people. That's their dream.

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3. Slaves and serfs, SAMO

[cstanleytech]

2. It never ended anywhere in the country. The wealthy simply learned to conceal their

wealth from the public eye better mostly by buying the varies news agencies and killing their reporting on it.