Welcome to turn-of-the-century America, where Scott Joplin's ragtime sets the beat and passionate vitality sets the tone. Harry Houdini astounds audiences with feats of magic escape while J. P. Morgan rules the world of finance like a Roman emperor. Emma Goldman preaches revolution, free love and feminism; Henry Ford builds cars by turning men into machines. A beautiful ex-chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbitt sparks the murder of an architect by a mad millionaire. These real-life characters mingle with a Lower East Side Jewish peddler, a black musician from Harlem, and a rebellious young middle-class WASP in the classic E. L. Doctorow novel that weaves a spellbinding story into a vibrant mosaic of a time, a place, and a people losing thir innocence and giving birth to an age where anything and everything goes.
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