H.W. Brands

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Historian H.W. Brands argues that the California Gold Rush was more crucial to the course of American history than the Civil War. He discusses his new book, The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream. Read an excerpt in the Reading Room.

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