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American century volume S-8
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This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.
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For more than a century, Northwest Indiana's political culture has involved secret handshakes, tapped phone calls, backroom deals and murder. Davich explores the hidden political scandals and highly publicized court cases of public servants who once swore to serve and protect.
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"The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything...
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"Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight--all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and...
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The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty years. From Jimmy Hoffa purportedly being buried somewhere beneath the end zone in Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, through allegations of a thoroughly corrupt medical and dental university, through Mafia influence at all levels, to a governor who suddenly declares himself a "gay...
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We, as Americans, would be well advised to take a closer look at our history and our definition of patriotism. With the passing of the insidiously-named Patriot Act which profoundly diminishes the civil liberties that veterans like myself and millions of others have fought to protect, we are now officially encouraged to not question authority. But, I ask you, is that patriotism? I don't think so. I think patriotism is exactly the opposite. Patriotism...
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From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining...
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Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp is a journey downriver...
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At the height of the 1920s, the ex-frontier town of Denver emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city. But the progress and opportunity masked a stew of organized crime, elaborate swindles, and widespread government corruption. Rookie district attorney Philip Van Cise employed military intelligence tools he'd developed during the war, and crippled the criminal empire of Lou Blonger. When the Ku Klux Klan employed anti-immigration...
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How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect our country from a man who lies, who obstructs justice, and who seeks to cheat with foreign powers to get reelected? Our constitution offers one remedy: impeachment. Thanks to the courageous actions of public servants who came forward to report his abuses of power, on December 18, 2019, President Donald J. Trump became just the third president in US history to be impeached by the House of Representatives....
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The 40th governor of Illinois made international headlines in 2008 when he was roused from his bed and arrested by the FBI at his Chicago home, under accusation of running the state government as a criminal racket--headlines Blagojevich fueled as he proclaimed his innocence. Here, two Chicago reporters reveal new evidence from the Federal investigation to present the most complete telling yet of the Blagojevich story. Coen and Chase spent years sifting...
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How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly.
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad...
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Richard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of his demons, deceptions, paranoia, hatreds, and chicanery. Fulsom pulls on his journalistic work covering Nixon as well interviews with members of Congress, White House staffers, and others close to the president, and on newly declassified documents and recordings, to shed new light on "Tricky Dick," ranging from mob ties...
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The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an "October Surprise"- a treasonous plot engineered by key figures in the Republican Party to keep the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris, costing thousands of American lives.
There is growing evidence that the CIA was deeply involved in illegal domestic operations targeting Daniel Ellsberg, and in the Watergate break-ins during Nixon's 1972 campaign,...
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Recounts not only the disturbing story of an unprecedented White House conspiracy to assassinate a journalist, but also the larger tale of the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar era's most embattled politician, Nixon, and its most reviled newsman, Anderson.
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[2024]
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"When John Rust got into the race for Indiana's open U.S. Senate seat, he discovered that eight out of ten Hoosiers were banned from running for political office thanks to an unconstitutional law meant to protect political insiders. In a landmark victory, John won ballot access for himself and for conservative Hoosiers across the great state of Indiana. And he's not done taking on the establishment. In Unsilencing the 81%, John Rust sets the record...
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