Heyday is a tale of America’s boisterous coming of age. At mid 19th century, modern life is being born: the mind-boggling marvels of photography, telegraph, and railroads, a flood of show business spectacles and newspapers, rampant sex and drugs and drink (and moral crusades against all three), a Wall Street awash with money, and giddy utopian visions everywhere. Then, during a single amazing month at the beginning of 1848, history lurches: America wins its war of manifest destiny against Mexico; gold is discovered in northern California; and revolutions sweep across Europe—sending one eager English gentleman off on an epic transatlantic adventure.
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