The Gilded Age was the dawn of celebrity culture and its perhaps inevitable side effect, the sex scandal. All of this coalesced around the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, one of the most famous figures of the day.
The Gilded Age (1865-1900) was also when the interview became a new feature of journalism. Religion, sex, and the interview–read more about all of this in Matthew Wills post at JSTOR Daily: Privacy, journalism, and the Gilded Age | JSTOR Daily.
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