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Dark Quadrant Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy

Marshall Jonathan
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781538142493
Publisert
2021-06-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vekt
699 gr
Høyde
238 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Marshall Jonathan

Biografisk notat

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 Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy

Marshall Jonathan
Innbundet / 2021 / Engelsk
Marshall Jonathan
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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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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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781538142493
Publisert
2021-06-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vekt
699 gr
Høyde
238 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter
Marshall Jonathan

Biografisk notat

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.

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