Age of the Machine: The Fight to Reinvent Democracy in the Gilded Age
The Breakers 44 Ochre Point Ave., NewportPulitzer Prize-winning biographer T.J. Stiles will discuss the political battles of the Gilded Age, a time of rampant political corruption and heavy-handed corporate intervention in elections. It was also a time when reformers ignited a reinvention of American democracy, changing how people voted, why people voted and how government worked.