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