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Between Tenements and Mansions: The Gilded Age …

- - - - While Gilded Age, on surface level, is a demonstration of wealth, the book itself is about "American Democracy."
  - - - "Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy."
        Library of Congress
- - - - bribing
        
        Example: The Crédit Mobilier (1872-1873
        
        "Crédit Mobilier, 'a phony construction company' set up to build the Union Pacific Railroad, had been financed with fraudulent bonds and used stocks to bribe government officials, resulting in hefty profits for its shareholders."
        
        A political cartoon by Joseph Keppler Sr., depicting how Uncle Sam directs the Congress, leading to the scandal
        
        acting!
        
        premeditatively
        
        Gatsby's wait
  - - - Mansions to establish social dominance, legacy and prestige
    - - JP Morgan
        
        JP Morgan decided to buy out Andrew Carnegie for more than 400 million dollars.
        Carnegie Corporation of New York
        
        "JP Morgan emerged as the main source of loans to the government." Constitutional Rights Foundation
        
        power dynamic
      - Andrew Carnegie
      - John D. Rockefeller
        
        "the oil barron"
        
        A snapshot of Gatsby and Gilded Age
        
        I[The mansion]t belonged to Demaine, the oil man." (Fitzgerald 10) -- circulation of wealth within the 1%
  - - - At the time immigration rated to United States were very high due to the political tension in other countries. For instance, Russian Jews were forced to leave Russia because of the pogroms. They came to United States with the hope of starting a new life.
        
        The American Dream -- the escape
        
        "Between 1870 and 1900, nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States, with 90% coming from Europe, 6.7% from Canada, and 1.7% from China. Most of these immigrants came from Germany, Ireland, and England during the 1870s and 1880s."
        Library of Congress
        
        Green Light!
        
        "...scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track." (Fitzgerald 21)
        
        Americans in the Party and the Englishmen hunting for wealth (Chapter II)
        
        [Meyer Wolfshein] "a small, flat-nosed Jew" (Chapter IV)
        
        Doctor T. J. Eckleburg's eyes watching the Valley of Ashes [God watching the moral corruption.]
    - - Jacob Riis: photographer in Manhattan. He was a pioneer in flash photography.
        
        Story: As there is no electric lighting in tenements sthe only way to capture them is using flashlights.
        
        Riis regularly set them on fire due to flashlights.
        International Center of Photography
        
        Five Cents a Spot
        
        Home of Italian Ragpicker
        
        How the Other Half Lives