'We Are Re-Living the Economic Policies of the Gilded Age': The Biltmore Estate

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3. The Gilded Age: PBS American Experience, 2023, Mary Lease, Henry George, The Peoples Party

'The Gilded Age,' PBS American Experience 2023. (1 hour, 53 minutes). Mary Elizabeth Lease, Henry George, The People's Party, The Populists.

- Description: Meet the wealthy elite of the Gilded Age - and the struggling workers who challenged them. The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history.

In the closing decades of the 19th century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. 2018 WGBH.
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Wiki - Mary Elizabeth Lease (Sept. 11, 1850[a] – Oct., 1933) was an American lecturer, writer, Georgist, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance, but she was best known for her work with the People's Party (Populists)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Lease
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Wiki - Populist Party (U.S.), People's Party
The People's Party, usually known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist political party in the U.S. in the late 19th c. The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern & Western U.S., but declined rapidly after the 1896 U.S. presidential election in which most of its natural constituency was absorbed by the Bryan wing of the Democratic Party.
A rump faction of the party continued to operate into the first decade of the 20th c., but never matched the popularity of the party in the early 1890s. The Populist Party's roots lay in the Farmers' Alliance, an agrarian movement that promoted economic action during the Gilded Age, as well as the Greenback Party, an earlier 3rd party that had advocated fiat money...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist_Party_(United_States)
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Wiki - Henry George, (Sept. 2, 1839 – Oct. 29, 1897) was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-c. America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. George famously argued that a single tax on land values would create a more productive and just society.
His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide. The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George