Gilded Generation (Strauss–Howe theory)

New York police violently attacking unemployed workers in Tompkins Square Park, 1874.

The Gilded Generation is the name given by sociologists to describe the generation of American people, born 1822–1842. It is an identified cohort within the Strauss–Howe generational theory.

They came of age amid rising national tempers, torrential immigration, rampant commercialism, conspicuous consumerism,[1] declining college enrolments and economic disputes. As young adults, many pursued fortunes in frontier boom towns.

The US Civil War that left them decimated in that country, and as a whole distrusting of Zealotry and institutional involvement.

Notable persons

Some of the notable persons who influenced this generation include Mark Twain, JP Morgan, Jay Gould,[2] John D. Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant, Louisa May Alcott and Lewis Carroll.

See also

References

  1. ↑ John Franch, Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (University of Illinois Press, 2006) page 13.
  2. ↑ John Franch, Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (University of Illinois Press, 2006) page 13.


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