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Oct 7, 2026 32 min

The Gold Rush That Never Ended

from Talk Cocktail Hosted by Jeff Schechtman

Nathaniel Philbrick, a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer finalist, recasts the Gold Rush as the moment where America learned to embrace greed and live at warp speed. His new book, “The Rush,” and in our recent California Sun conversation, he explores instant wealth, immigration, slavery, and technological upheaval, then follows that same restless impulse from the Gold Rush through railroads and agriculture to Silicon Valley and the artificial intelligence boom. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

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