A great buildup of narratives by:
Oliver Platt - Narrator < ---
H. W. Brands - Historian
Richard White - Historian
Richard John - Historian
Rebecca Edwards - Historian
John Kuo Tchen - Historian
Steve Fraser - Historian
Paula Giddings - Writer
Sylvia Hoffert - Historian
Jack Lears - Historian
Norm Maggor - Historian
David Nasaw - Historian
Edward O'Donnell - Historian
Julia Ott - Historian
Nell Irvin Painter - Historian
Susie J. Pak - Historian
John Kuo Wei - Historian
There are enough actual pictures and films to keep this presentation from having a sound bite feel. The documentary is presented well enough to ruffle a few feathers as a good document should.
I must have been sleeping under a rock. We get a whole story of William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative; all I could think of was the movie "Gone with the Wind" 1960. I learned a lot that my history teachers had not told me. To the gold standard, he said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
Do not forget a further reading with:
-Progress and Poverty: Full and Fine Text of 1880 by Henry George.
-The Peoples Joan of Arc: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America (American University Studies Book 14) by Brooke Speer Orr, is a tad expensive but keep looking.
- For the Ayn Rand type, we have the Principles of Sociology by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
- Panic Scrip of 1893, 1907 and 1914: An Illustrated Catalog of Emergency Monetary Issues by Neil Shafer (Author), Tom Sheehan (Author), Fred Reed (Author, Editor) Loren Gatch on the background leading to these currency issues.
- Coxey's Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age
by Jerry Prout
The documentary is of a time squarely in the middle of Alvin Toffler's second-wave industrial economy and ignores today's third wave with either questions or answers. This is strange as it was made in 2018 (long after the industrial economy and with no reference at all to the information age.)