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Who is Jay Gould from Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 and what is their importance?

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Industrialist, Jay Gould, was an extremely wealthy man, who conspired to bribe presidential cabinet members in a ploy to control the price of gold.

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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877