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Age of the Machine: The Fight to Reinvent Democracy in the Gilded Age

May 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer T.J. Stiles will discuss the political battles of the Gilded Age, a time of rampant political corruption and heavy-handed corporate intervention in elections. It was also a time when reformers ignited a reinvention of American democracy, changing how people voted, why people voted and how government worked.

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Date:
May 18, 2023
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Website:
https://www.newportmansions.org/events/the-gilded-age-years-transforming-america/

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Preservation Society of Newport County
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Venue

The Breakers
44 Ochre Point Ave.
Newport, 02840
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