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The First Tycoon

>>25063787
Danke

>>25063967
Das not the Gilded Age

>>25063543
we're not. wealth inequality is nearly as bad as it was during the gilded age, but there's barely any new technological progress happening besides with musk.

The Age of Innocence for the upper class, Ethan Frome for the working class

>>25064295
I was making a casual inference. notice I said "apparently"

>Ohio’s Kingmaker: Mark Hanna, Man and Myth by William T. Horner
>Mark Hanna's personal memoir
>Intimate Papers of Colonel House
It's a little past the gilded age, but you definitely see the same behavior from well-connected aides and non-official aides today.
>Calvin Coolidge's autobiography
A very idealistic fluff political book, but interesting if you read between the lines to see how a rural Vermonter becomes governor of Massachusetts and then the president

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>>25063967
I was thinking of the roaring 20's but it gets into that special American spice of American capitalism and the ethos that sustains it.
Grabbed this recently/randomly.
Haven't got too far, but an interesting set up.

>Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52517.Plunkitt_of_Tammany_Hall

Ignore the downvotes from libs upset that he pokes fun at regulations and mocks civil service exams. A New York ward heeler tells the truth about how democratic government actually runs.

>WTF is a ward heeler
Political op who got people to the polls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_heeler

more like gelded age

>>25063543
The "Further reading" list on the wiki article about the Gilded Age.

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>>25063543
we dont even have a cool figure like theodore roosevelt to get us through these hard times. all of our world leaders just like raping kids and subjegating us even harder with AI and palantir. this sucks.

>>25064607
Hanna, huh? I've heard that name around these parts as an Ohioan.

>>25066506
Its coming. You're being impatient.

>>25066347
Ha

>>25066614
t-teddy sama??

>>25063543
The Financier and sequels (Dreiser)

>>25064295
Are you indian?

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>>25066506
And our intellectuals...

>>25067594
>spacex
>useful