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Temple of music, [a novel] by Jonathan Lowy

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Temple of music

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[a novel] by Jonathan Lowy

Tells the story of real-life characters who embodied the Gilded Age. Among them are corrupt kingmaker "Dollar" Hana; candidate and media star, William Jennings Bryan; sleazy, all-powerful newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst; morality czar Anthony Comstock, perpetually at war against pornography and contraceptives, William McKinly, who becomes the president, and Leon Czolgosz, a Czech immigrant who assassinates him. As America becomes an empire and the industrial age booms and produces wealthy industry tycoons such as Carnegie, Gould, and Rockefeller, the workers-wretchedly poor and overworked-form labor unions, strikes and the anarchist movement

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