Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act at the height of what Mark Twain called the Gilded Age of American history. The Gilded Age, which spanned from the 1870s to about 1900, was dominated by ...

The Gilded Age saw the development of America's first giant corporations amid political scandals and the growth of railroad, oil and electric industry. The Sherman Antitrust Act is born against ...

We’re in a new Gilded Age of wealth and power similar ... Shortly thereafter, the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed by the Senate 52 to 1, and it moved quickly through the House without dissent.

We’re in a new Gilded Age of wealth and power similar ... Shortly thereafter, the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed by the Senate 52 to 1, and it moved quickly through the House without dissent.

By the time of the near-unanimous passage of the Antitrust Act, Americans were beside themselves ... Americans in the Gilded Age had not yet come to think of themselves as consumers.

“We have managed to recreate both the economics and politics of a century ago—the first Gilded Age ... had passed the Clayton Antitrust Act (strengthening the Sherman Act) and created ...