Description: On Corruption in America : And What Is at Stake, Paperback by Chayes, Sarah, ISBN 0525563938, ISBN-13 9780525563938, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
“If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains
Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, she argues, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members.
In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of Americas 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 FDRs New Deal; from Joe Kennedys years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nations 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 Trumps 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.
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Book Title: On Corruption in America : and What Is at Stake
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Corruption & Misconduct, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Sarah Chayes
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
