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The Triumph Of Money In America, 1865-1900
Vintage Books
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
512 pages
ISBN: 1400032423
EAN: 9781400032426
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Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of
America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom
and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the
alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes
and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the
corruption of American political culture that, in the words
of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the
people, by the people, and for the people” into “a
government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for
the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and
sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.
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