As a historical period, the Gilded Age spanned, roughly, from 1865 (the end of the Civil War) or 1870 to about 1900. The term comes from the title of an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today," but it was not used to describe the era until historians and progressive reformers adopted it in the 1920s as a way to disparage what they saw as the period's contradictions and hypocrisies: its simultaneous hyperbolic excesses and extreme poverty.
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