Donald Ebsen’s Reviews > The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power > Status Update

The idea that we are living in a second Gilded Age asks us to compare the 19th century era with our own. It is Fraser's contention that they are fundamentally different times. Fraser's mastery of cultural and intellectual sources provides an explanation of his paradox - the original Gilded Age was rebellious, but our own age was not.