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Julian Fellowes
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The Gilded Age Makes a Mess of the Picket Line
Julian Fellowes’s ode to nineteenth-century wealth has decided it has a story to tell about organized labor.
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Happy endings abound as the foundation of the British aristocracy breaks down.
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