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

by Jack Beatty

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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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About the Author

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 10 Best Business Books of the Year by Business Week. He was a Poynter Fellow at Yale, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research grants, a William Allen White Award for Criticism, and shared an Olive Branch Award for an Atlantic article on arms control. He lectures frequently throughout the country.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781400032426

Author:

Beatty, Jack

Publisher:

Vintage Books USA

Subject:

Corporate & Business History - General

Subject:

United States - 19th Century

Subject:

United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877)

Subject:

United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age

Subject:

Economic History

Subject:

History

Subject:

Capitalism

Subject:

United States Social conditions 1865-1918.

Subject:

United States - Economic conditions - 1865-

Subject:

Corporate History

Subject:

US History-19th Century

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage

Publication Date:

20080431

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

28 ILLUSTRATIONS

Pages:

512

Dimensions:

8.01x5.15x1.04 in. 1.05 lbs.

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