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Gilded Age: Pride in Excess

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August 7, 2012

The flaunting of wealth that marked the Gilded Age is difficult to grasp. Forbes reports there are currently 425 U.S. billionaires, the most in any country. They tend to live in cocoons, flinching when the media write about their vast homes or other trappings of wealth. But Newport Rhode Island’s Gilded Age mansions were built…