The title has got to be something like The Great Gold Years: The Plumpest Prosperity the World Had Ever Known, 1871-1914.

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In some ways it felt like the proverbial middle-aged woman deciding to inject her lips with Botox despite the fact that everyone around her thought she had the plumpest lips this side of Angelina Jolie.

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