For the captains of industry-men like Andrew Carnegie, John D.Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford-the Gilded Age is a time of big money.Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights,harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, itis a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions. The disparity between the richand the poor was dismaying, which prompted some people to action. In An Age ofExtremes, you'll meet Mother Jones, Ida Tarbell, Big Bill Haywood, Sam Gompers,and other movers and shakers, and get swept up in the enthusiasm of TeddyRoosevelt. You'll also watch the United States take its greatest role on theworld stage since the Revolution, as it enters the bloody battlefields of Europein World War I.