Age of Betrayal

Age of Betrayal
ISBN-10
0307267245
ISBN-13
9780307267245
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
2007-04-10
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Jack Beatty

Description

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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