Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (Vintage)
by Jack Beatty
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Author: Jack BeattyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-08
ISBN: 1400032423
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Vintage
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Summary: 5 Stars
Good economic history...not an easy read but if you are interested in post Civil War economics and the Guilded Age this book covers the subject very well. Most of the people who would be interested in this book are already well versed in the history of this era and this text may provive them with some detail tid bits that they were not aware of.
The book looks at mainly the administrations of Grant, Hayes, Authur and Cleveland and their relationships with Wall Street and the Rail Roads. One obsecure individual that is talked about is Tom Scott of the Penn. Central RR and his corruption of Congress. The major evens like the Great Rail Strike, Pullman Strike, The Hay Market, Homestead Steel are all covered in rather great detainl and make for interesting reading when taken in context with the political enviroments that created them.
If your taste runs with top selling histories writen by scribes for hire who think nothing of plagiarism and retelling the same old myths we were told in school, pass this book by. This is history the way it should be.
Summary of Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (Vintage)
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.Company Profiles Books
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