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Age of betrayal : the triumph of money in America, 1865-1900 /

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008		230911s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng d
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100	1	\|aBeatty, Jack
245	10	\|aAge of betrayal :\|bthe triumph of money in America, 1865-1900 /\|cJack Beatty
246	3	\|aMoney in America,\|b1865-1900
250		\|a1st Vintage books ed
260		\|aNew York :\|bVintage Books,\|c2008
300		\|axvii, 483 pages :\|billustrations ;\|c21 cm
500		\|aOriginally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf in 2007
504		\|aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 395-463) and index
505	0	\|aAnnihilating space -- Rome of the railroads -- "Vote yourself a tariff" -- "Vote yourself a farm" -- The inverted Constitution -- The scandal of Santa Clara -- Anti-democracy -- Tom Scott, political capitalist -- Bread or blood -- The politics of the future -- Revolution from above -- Mississippi and the American way -- Retrospect
520		\|aA fresh look at the Gilded Age, when an oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy. At the end of the Civil War, with the rebellion put down and slavery ended, America belonged to Lincoln's "plain people." But "government of the people" and economic democracy were betrayed by political parties that fanned memories of the war to distract Americans from government of the corporation. Jay Gould, the "Mephisto of Wall Street," never runs for office, but he rules. A depression brought on by railroad speculation throws millions out of work, the hungry riot for bread in Buffalo, the homeless sleep on Chicago's streets, strikers are shot, and the nation's presidents avert their eyes. God instructs President McKinley to invade Cuba and seize the Philippines from Spain; turning from liberators to occupiers, U.S. troops slaughter and starve the (Roman Catholic) Filipinos in the name of "Christianizing" them.--From publisher description
650	0	\|aPolitical corruption\|zUnited States\|xHistory\|y19th century
650	0	\|aDemocracy\|zUnited States\|xHistory\|y19th century
650	0	\|aCapitalism\|xSocial aspects\|zUnited States\|xHistory\|y19th century
651	0	\|aUnited States\|xPolitics and government\|y1865-1900
651	0	\|aUnited States\|xEconomic conditions\|y1865-1918
651	0	\|aUnited States\|xSocial conditions\|y1865-1918
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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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