Verfasst von:	Chayes, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	On corruption in America
Titelzusatz:	and what is at stake
Verf.angabe:	Sarah Chayes
Ausgabe:	First Vintage Books edition
Verlagsort:	New York
Verlag:	Vintage Books, a division of Penguin House LLC
Jahr:	2021
Umfang:	x, 414 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Format:	21 cm
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-396) and index
ISBN:	978-0-525-56393-8
	0-525-56393-8
Abstract:	"From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future. In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members. She then brings us up to the present as she shines a light on the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment and documents Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. Ultimately and most importantly, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they overtly determine the shape of our government, and how they affect all levels of society, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated."--Publisher's description
Schlagwörter:	(g)Nordamerika    / (g)USA    / (s)Politik    / (s)Korruption    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Political corruption
	Politics and government
	History
Geograph. SW:	United States
K10plus-PPN:	1782615229