The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy

by Ralph Brauer

This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern America

In American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very high social and economic stresses they caused.

The Age of Discontent reveals that it was not the tycoons, but rather the laborers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647125707
• ISBN13: 9781647125707
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher