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 bigmoney. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electriclights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrantworkers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working12 to 14 hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions. The disparity betweenthe rich and the poor was dismaying, which prompted some people to action. In AnAge of Extremes, you'll meet Mother Jones, Ida Tarbell, Big Bill Haywood, SamGompers, and other movers and shakers, and get swept up in the enthusiasm ofTeddy Roosevelt. You'll also watch the United States take its greatest role onthe world stage since the Revolution, as it enters the bloody battlefields ofEurope in World War I.