Age of Betrayal

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.