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The long nineteenth century had given birth to a plutocracy unschooled and indisposed to win the trust and preside over a society it feared. Instead, the plutocracy preferred playacting at aristocracy, simultaneously confirming all the popular suspicions about its real intentions and forming a Society that had forsaken society.
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
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