A poor rural family tries becoming affluent by selling acres of unimproved land. But after the family fails to sell the land, adopted daughter Laura travels to Washington, D.C. to lobby the federal government to purchase the land with the help of a senator. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today satirizes greed and political corruption, and social pretensions of the newly rich in post-Civil War America.

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