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Age of Betrayal

By Jack , Beatty

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2007
ISBN
9780307267245
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1299391 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Age of Betrayalis 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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