Paul Sorrells

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Roscoe Conkling embodied the problems with writing satires in the Gilded Age when satires diluted an already outrageous reality rather than exaggerating it. Conkling’s escapades gave a taste of the politics that Adams despised.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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