The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today 1873 a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America.
The term "gilded age", commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595).
The book is remarkable for two reasons 1) it is the only book Twain wrote with a collaborator 2) it's title quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism and corruption in public life.
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