1.0 link 66235 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-belzer/the-death-of-conservatism_2_b_66235.html To understand why conservatism is dying, it is instructive to see how it came full bloom in the Gilded Age. This era is indelibly depicted in Age of Betrayal, a brilliant book by Atlantic Monthly senior editor Jack Beatty. Here is how the book's jacket captures the time:

"The Gilded Age in America, when an oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy, when dreams of freedom and equality died of their impossibility. Jay Gould, the 'Mesphisto of Wall Street,'...

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