Jack Beatty: Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: »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…