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The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s

H.W. Brands, Author, history Professor at Texas A&M University, talked about his book, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s, published by… read more

H.W. Brands, Author, history Professor at Texas A&M University, talked about his book, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s, published by St. Martin’s Press . He characterized the decade as dealing with the end of the U.S. frontier West and looking forward to a new century, and in which populism was in conflict with political elitism. He described individuals such as Teddy Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan and William Jennings Bryant. close

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