Download or read book New Spirits written by Rebecca Edwards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Gilded Age, as the later 19th century in America has become known, the former rural republic had become an industrialized nation and a power in the world. 'New Spirits' describes a pivotal era in the history of the United States.