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On a warm October night in 1905, a respected banker stepped out of his office and into the darkness. Hours later, he would take his own life, leaving behind a handwritten confession and its most devastating line: “Andrews has worked my ruin.” By morning, his bank had collapsed, taking the life savings of thousands of working people with it. Millions vanished. And the hidden machinery of the most corrupt, ruthless political empire in American history was instantly and violently exposed, confirming what had been whispered for years but never proven.
William “Bull” Andrews had spent decades learning the dark arts of power, as both the chief political operative of the Pennsylvania Republican machine, which ran its state like a crime syndicate, and a political agent for what The Atlantic called the "greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known to history." John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. Now, he wanted an empire of his own. Setting his sights on the far-flung Territory of New Mexico, the Bull saw a place raw enough to be shaped politically and rich enough to be mined economically. He would flood it with misappropriated capital, maneuver it toward statehood, and handsomely benefit when it gained inclusion in a nation changing under his feet. He had the party bosses, the railroad money, and had even placed a reluctant Theodore Roosevelt on a presidential ticket against the candidate’s own wishes.
What Andrews hadn’t counted on was the age that had built him was on borrowed time. In Washington, a new generation of progressive senators, for reasons both earnest and cynical, sought to block his path to statehood. In Pennsylvania, a charismatic small-town mayor built a campaign to destroy the machine that had built men like Andrews. Then, the banker walked into the darkness. When his confession became public, it handed his enemies exactly the weapon they needed, on the eve of an election that would decide whether the old order would survive at all. It did not end the way anyone expected.
Filled with political intrigue and fresh insight into one of the most chaotic periods in American history, The Territory reveals how the Gilded Age came to an end—suddenly, and not at all.
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Writer: Mendelsohn, Joshua
Release Date: 2027-02-16
FOC Date: 2027-01-12
Page Count: 416
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SKU: 9798897102655
Barcode: 9798897102655
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