Good old days is a cliché in popular culture used to reference a time considered by the speaker to be better than the current era. I rated this book a four; the text is really a three, but the pictures--which are repreinted from newspapaers and books of that time rate a five by me, so the average is four. I really should have picked up a copy of The House of Seven Gables itself, but I figured I'd never get around to reading it since I'm terrible about reading the classics. This was an excellent peek into some of the realities of the Gilded Age: the dirt, the grime, pollution, crime, terrible education systems, blah blah blah.

Unfortunately, only wealthy native male property owners could vote, most Athenians were slaves, and Socrates was convicted of impiety and "corruption of the youth", and sentenced to death. However, by the time I hit the middle of the book, I felt like I was being walloped over the head with pessimism. whose supporters have mindlessly campaigned for his presidency in 2022, despite vehement opposition and anxiety from groups such as (foreign) investors and the very same religious groups who campaigned for Marcos Sr. That the "good old days", whatever era we think that refers to, was never really so good, and that we are all far better served by looking forward, to the better futures we can build together, than to an imagined past that never existed.I can see why someone would be frustrated at the grand statements and generalizations that are made without a whole lot of examples. Chapters are divided by vice, and look at problems like drug and alcohol dependency, crimes involving children and child abuse, murder, prostitution, common street crime like petty theft, and perhaps most intriguingly the section on cons, fraud and psychic crime. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

The only critique I have to offer is that the author sprinkles this fairly extended essay piece with “my mother” or “my aunt” or “people like me”.

Not about the latest gaming news, but about the games themselves, and - as you've already surmised from the site's name - specializing in what's usually considered 'classic' these days. A healthy corrective for those inclined to sentimentalize the past, particularly since we seem to be heading into a replay of the Gilded Age, with our politicians and their enablers seemingly determined to plunge us once again into that era's omnipresent corruption, inequality, and hardship. Child labor counts were 700,000 children in 1870, rising to 1,752,187 in 1890 – mostly in mills in the South. That is to say a trip across a given city was the equivalent of a week's pay for the average person. As such these compositions are not your standard 3/4 front loco portraits, instead they reflect what we all wish we had recorded more of when we still had the chance.