The Age of Betrayal

Author Jack Beatty takes a second look at America's so-called "Gilded Age", the time of Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie and Financier and Developer Jay Gould. He explores the role of railroads as the engine of capitalism and lays out how he believes wealth was favored over the commonwealth and how representative government gave way to bought government in the mid to late 1800s. Beatty uses history and various other scholarly works to give us a new perspective on the “revolution from above” of industrialization that forged modern America.

Guests

• Jack Beatty, of "Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America 1865-1900", Senior Editor at the Atlantic Monthly and news analyst for WBUR's On Point