CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: ALL THAT GLITTERS

PART I: PEOPLE AND THINGS

CHAPTER 1
Centennial

CHAPTER 2
The Dynamo, the Virgin, and the Bridge

CHAPTER 3
Titans, Plutocrats, and Philanthropists

CHAPTER 4
Science and Industry

CHAPTER 5
The Marketplace

CHAPTER 6
Statue and Island

CHAPTER 7
Hard Labor

CHAPTER 8
Gilded Monuments

CHAPTER 9
American Realism

PART II: FORM AND REFORM

CHAPTER 10
Reconstruction Ends

CHAPTER 11
A Woman’s Place

CHAPTER 12
The Frontier Closes

CHAPTER 13
Dirty Politics

CHAPTER 14
The Progressives

CHAPTER 15
White City

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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