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Gilded Age

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When body counts in the Middle East are in the triple digits and rhetoric from leaders sounds hollow, there are days it seems like the country is in a very dire place. Independent Producer Nate DiMeo puts these feelings into a little historical perspective by reminding us of the Gilded Age, the years just after the Civil War: "It was time a just like ours, but just way, way uglier."

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