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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.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Glen Gendzel
Glen Gendzel
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San Jose State University
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 446 - 450
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2009

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6 Frank, Thomas, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (New York, 2004).Google Scholar But see also Bartels, Larry M., “What's the Matter with What's the Matter with Kansas?” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 1:2 (2006): 201–26CrossRefGoogle Scholar.