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Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth Seeking in Pre-Civil War America

By Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
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By Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
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In the midst of the United States' immense economic growth in the 1850s, Americans worried about whether the booming agricultural, industrial, and commercial expansion came at the price of cherished American values such as honesty, hard work, and dedication to the common good. Was the nation becoming greedy, selfish, vulgar, and cruel? Was there such a thing as too much prosperity?

At the same time, the United States felt the influence of the rise of popular mass-circulation newspapers and ...

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