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Also by Jack Beatty:

The Lost History Of 1914, February 2012
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Age Of Betrayal, April 2008
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AGE OF BETRAYAL
By: Jack Beatty

The Triumph Of Money In America, 1865-1900

Vintage Books
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
512 pages
ISBN: 1400032423
EAN: 9781400032426
Paperback
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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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