Re: i haven't revised it yet. email me ideas.x__tragedyFebruary 9 2005, 06:26:27 UTC
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As Big Business tightened its grip on the economy, so too did it focus its strength on the remaining outlet for control of the country: politics. The 1890s was the climax period for many facets of American life, and politics were no exception. This was an age in which citizens became more concerned with the government, because so many people had so many strong opinions about a great variety of things. The Populist movement, reformations in the Republican and Democrat parties, as well as the development of corruption in the latter two were the primary basis for the rise of the importance of government in American life. In the middle stages of all of this, it seemed prosperous businessmen, as well as the corruption in the form of party “bosses” were notorious. But it was in the second part of this socio-political movement, which Brands highlights in the final pages of The Reckless Decade, that the attention and power actually seemed to move away from the businessmen to the actual politicians (who despite their positions often managed to run politics like businessmen).
As stated previously, the intention of the book is to highlight the struggle of Americans in the 1890s and the effect it had on the development of a national character. Brands’ weaker, secondary purpose did not seem as defined, at least by the evidence presented in The Reckless Decade - lessons which could be learned from the 1890s and applied to America a century later did not appear very well-promoted in its pages. Though with its superb retelling of the facts and interesting compartmentalization of different historical moments, creating a sort of literary scrapbook of primary sources, Brands does present a fascinating work which does a splendid job of giving the reader a feel for the kinds of recklessness which indeed sweep the decade of the 1890s.
Re: i haven't revised it yet. email me ideas.x__tragedyFebruary 9 2005, 06:28:00 UTC
also, i'm aware that there are probably atrocious grammatical errors, as well as run-ons. it's past midnight and i just want to get to bed. a lame excuse, i know. but all the same. tell me what just sticks out as awful awful awful, or if it just seems fine, or if you don't care, just poop on it.
As Big Business tightened its grip on the economy, so too did it focus its strength on the remaining outlet for control of the country: politics. The 1890s was the climax period for many facets of American life, and politics were no exception. This was an age in which citizens became more concerned with the government, because so many people had so many strong opinions about a great variety of things. The Populist movement, reformations in the Republican and Democrat parties, as well as the development of corruption in the latter two were the primary basis for the rise of the importance of government in American life. In the middle stages of all of this, it seemed prosperous businessmen, as well as the corruption in the form of party “bosses” were notorious. But it was in the second part of this socio-political movement, which Brands highlights in the final pages of The Reckless Decade, that the attention and power actually seemed to move away from the businessmen to the actual politicians (who despite their positions often managed to run politics like businessmen).
As stated previously, the intention of the book is to highlight the struggle of Americans in the 1890s and the effect it had on the development of a national character. Brands’ weaker, secondary purpose did not seem as defined, at least by the evidence presented in The Reckless Decade - lessons which could be learned from the 1890s and applied to America a century later did not appear very well-promoted in its pages. Though with its superb retelling of the facts and interesting compartmentalization of different historical moments, creating a sort of literary scrapbook of primary sources, Brands does present a fascinating work which does a splendid job of giving the reader a feel for the kinds of recklessness which indeed sweep the decade of the 1890s.
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the fucking computer crashed halfway through my philosophy paper
and I didnt save ;[ ;[
I had to start over and I didnt have time to look at your essay. I'll look at it today if its not too late?
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