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Series
Reference Shelf volume 87, no.2
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xiii, 180 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses differing viewpoints on whistle blowing, the exposure of mismanagement, corruption, illegality or other wrongdoing in an organization, business, or government.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption"--Amazon.com.
3) Secret empires: how the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends
Author
Language
English
Description
In many parts of the world, the children of powerful political figures go into business and profit handsomely, not necessarily because they are good at it, but because people want to curry favor with their influential parents. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the U.S.; but for relatives of some prominent political families, we may already be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of... investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
n 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol.
Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt. In the quarter century in between, Americans...
Author
Language
English
Description
That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who are eager to help the Chinese dictatorship in its quest for global hegemony.
Presidential families, Silicon Valley gurus, Wall Street high rollers, Ivy League universities, even professional athletes--all willing to sacrifice American strength and security on the altar of personal enrichment.
In...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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. In this informative and optimistic book, Chaffetz highlights the tactics of the Deep State and offers a way to fight back and win....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Woodward reveals the story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
xxi, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Klein uncovers the real story behind Hillary's email scandals and the dirty political games that have kept her one step ahead of the law. Klein reveals what the FBI's team of 100-plus investigators really found on Clinton's server and how Comey, the FBI director, personally went to the Oval Office to warn President Obama against any attempt to intervene in the investigation.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an inside look through the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tale of Gilded Age corruption -- gold-looting, court-buying, and good old fashioned venality -- that extended from the new frontier of Alaska to the Oval Office"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 285 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former Secret Service official explores what he sees as "the personal and political dysfunction of the Clinton White House, so consumed by scandal and destroying their enemies, real and imagined, ... that governing was an afterthought."
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A revelation of Bill and Hillary Clinton's last days as the First Family discusses President Clinton's controversial pardons and his relationship with fugitive Marc Rich, and Hillary's solicitation of gifts and partaking of the White House china.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
The Cold War did not end in 1991, it merely evolved, with Putin and his hand-selected group of oligarchs and Mafia kingpins ensnaring Trump more than twenty years ago with the massive bailout of a string of sensational Trump hotel and casino failures in Atlantic City. Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the frightening underworld of the Russian...