[PDF.71bt] Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900

Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900

[PDF.og73] Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900

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 | #716501 in Books |  Vintage |  2008-04-08 |  2008-04-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x1.30 x5.30l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Beatty's critique resonates in today's new Gilded Age|By Craig R. Mccormick|This is a great history about the betrayal of democracy that erased the democratic advances (emancipation, 13th-16th Amendments, Reconstruction) that the U.S. earned through the Civil War and up to 1877, when Congress conceded the country to the wealthy corporations and unabashedly accepted payment for|From Publishers Weekly|Atlantic Monthly editor Beatty (The Rascal King) clearly invokes a comparison with the present in writing of how, he says, corporations, not the people, ruled America in the Gilded Age. He examines the role of the railroads a

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 go...

You easily download any file type for your device.Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900   |  Jack Beatty. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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