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Topic: The Gilded Age

Morgan Spector, Carrie Coon and Harry Richardson in "The Gilded Age" (Karolina Wojtasik/HBO)

Who wants to love a billionaire?

Melanie McFarland
Bill Irwin, Cynthia Nixon and Pumpkin in "The Gilded Age" (Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO)

Pumpkin's value on "The Gilded Age"

Joy Saha, Hanh Nguyen
Carrie Coon in "The Gilded Age" (Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO)

The star of "Gilded Age" is the bustle

Alison Stine
Carrie Coon in "The Gilded Age" (Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO)

Gilded Age is more Dynasty than Downton

Melanie McFarland
A carrying-in boy at a Virginia glass factory. He worked all night, every other week. (Museum Of The City Of New York)

The Gilded Age: How Now Is Then

Melanie McFarland
David Brooks (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

"The crack of some abyss"

Scott Eric Kaufman
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