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Twain and Warner Were Right - Jack Beatty. Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. xvii + 483 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4000-4028-5.
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