Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 - Paperback
by Jack Beatty
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400032426ISBN-10:1400032423UPC:9781400032426Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Economic History, Corporate & Business HistoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.01 x 5.15 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC3FT7KR8D
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400032426ISBN-10:1400032423UPC:9781400032426Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Economic History, Corporate & Business HistoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.01 x 5.15 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC3FT7KR8D
Jack Beatty is a senior editor of The Atlantic and news analyst for On Point, the national NPR news and public affairs program. His book The Rascal King on legendary Boston mayor James Michael Curley won an American Book Award, was shortlisted for the NBCC award, and was one of USA Today's 10 Best Books of the Year. He was the editor of Colossus, a book on corporations, which was named one of the...
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