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

Title: Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
Author: Jack Beatty
ISBN: 9781400032426
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 512
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
C: 1698555
Section: History | United States | 19th Century
Publisher 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.