Age of Betrayal

Business & Finance, Business Reference, Corporate History, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th Century
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Author: Jack Beatty ISBN: 9780307267245
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: April 10, 2007
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Jack Beatty
ISBN: 9780307267245
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: April 10, 2007
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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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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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