How my 1980s term paper for Jack Thomas became a new book… more than 30 years later At Brown University in the spring of 1985, History 198R, “The Gilded Age,” met on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30 to 3:50; Professor John L. Thomas, presiding. Thomas was a tall, dignified, old-school historian with a shock of white hair, a twinkle in his eye, and a Down East accent…
