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Kevin Phillips
Born
in Manhattan, New York, The United States
November 30, 1940
Died
October 09, 2023
Genre
More books by Kevin Phillips…
“....young people unskilled in mathematics, addled by credit cards, and weaned on so-called intelligent design...will somehow retool American science for another generation of world industrial leadership.”
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“The measure of the Gilded Age, beginning in the 1870s, was that by the 1890s the goliaths of U.S. business, railroading, and finance had gained de facto control over many state legislatures, the federal judiciary, and the U.S. Senate. Looking back from the 1930s, historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. observed how “America, in an ironical perversion of Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg, had become a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.”
― Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy
― Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy
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