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Book Signing: Robert Mitchell - Congress and the King of Frauds

The Credit Mobilier scandal rocked Washington in 1873. It ruined reputations, contributed to a massive Republican defeat in the 1874 congressional elections and colored the Mark Twain-Charles Dudley Warner novel, The Gilded Age: a Tale of Today. It validated anxieties about corruption and concentrated economic power as America staggered toward industrialization. Few other political scandals have been so consequential.

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Date: 01/20/2018
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Place:

185 North Loudoun Street
Winchester, VA 22601
United States