Twain, Mark,  1835-1910 <br/><br/>
The Gilded Age, Part 6. 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today  Release date is 2004-06-20 
<br/><br/>Produced by David Widger  Produced by David Widger 
<br/><br/> "The Gilded Age, Part 6." by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner is a satirical novel first published in 1873. This collaborative work follows a poor rural family's attempts to gain wealth by selling their vast Tennessee landholdings. Their adopted daughter Laura becomes a Washington lobbyist, navigating a world of political corruption and social ambition. Meanwhile, two young men seek fortune through land speculation. The novel satirizes the greed, materialism, and political corruption of post-Civil War America—giving an entire era its enduring name. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Satire Political fiction Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction Legislators -- Fiction Speculation -- Fiction Political corruption -- Fiction Businessmen -- Fiction 
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