Dark Quadrant Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy
Innbundet /
2021
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781538142493
Published
2021-06-09
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight
699 gr
Height
238 mm
Width
163 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
416
Author
Biographical note
Jonathan Marshall is an independent journalist who has published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, National Review, California Lawyer, California Journal, American Enterprise, Stanford Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, Pacific News Service, HuffingtonPost, and ConsortiumNews.com. He has been the economics editor and technology reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, editorial page editor, Oakland Tribune, editorial writer, San Jose Mercury News, associate editor, Inquiry magazine, and a project member, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He lives in San Anselmo, California.
Dark Quadrant traces the systematic corruption of businesspeople and politicians from 1945 to 1974 and draws links to our current political crisis. Documenting the collaboration of Presidents Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters. President Trump represents, in many ways, a twisted culmination of the forces described in this book.
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I: The Truman Years
2. Organized Crime and Corruption in the Truman Administration
3. Anti-Communism: Mobsters, the FBI, the China Lobby
Part II: From Ike to LBJ
4. The Dominican Connection: Dictators, Mobsters, and Caribbean Intrigues
5. The Friends of LBJ – I: Bobby Baker and the Mob
6. The Friends of LBJ – II: The Murchisons
7. Henry Crown, the Chicago Outfit, and the TFX Scandal
Part III: Richard Nixon
8. Nixon’s Caribbean Milieu, 1950-1968
9. In the White House: Nixon and the Mob, 1969-1974
10. Nixon, Howard Hughes, the CIA, and the Mob: The Road to Watergate
Part IV: Conclusion
11. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump
Bibliography
Notes
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Product details
ISBN
9781538142493
Published
2021-06-09
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight
699 gr
Height
238 mm
Width
163 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
416
Author