Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 by Jack Beatty

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

Jack Beatty

483 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A brilliant reconsideration of the Gilded Age in America, when an oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy, when dreams of freedom and equality died of their impossibility. Jay Gould, the “Mephisto of Wall Street,” never runs for office, but h...

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