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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, President Nil. Adam, Benjamin, Jaquiline, Edgar, and Richard attempt to gather...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Language
English
Description
Sixteen stories of true crime from America's foremost authority on the underworld James "Whitey" Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath -- who also happened to be a secret FBI informant -- his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went on the lam in 1995, the kingpin's legend grew to rival that of Al Capone. Captured after sixteen years in hiding, he now sits in a maximum...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Jake Logan volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media. A twisty, nonstop conspiracy thriller that only has one gear: high! The Network delivers.Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author This is mandatory reading for any thriller aficionado.- Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling Author A shadowy group is manipulating society-and they've only just begun. Late one...
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An investigation into how legislators have taken advantage of their positions -- and of weak financial disclosure laws -- to make millions. After a historic financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 men and women who draft the nation's laws. Members of Congress...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The American people are deeply divided about one thing: the belief that Washington is rife with government corruption. The concern over widespread corruption is growing. #2 The new form of corruption in Washington involves large sums of money that are being funneled to the families and friends of politicians who are making influential decisions that affect everything...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, was spending $820 a night at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in May 2018, indulging in a $650-per-day Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder from Legends Car Rentals. He was also spending $1,000 a week on porn. #2 Hunter's escapades with Yanna, a Russian escort, are a glimpse into the debauched lifestyle of the president's son. But his finances...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.
Author
Publisher
Trine Day LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The July 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and his subsequent death that August brought national as well as international attention to a sex ring where certain members of the power elite sexually abused and exploited female minors and young women. Epstein's death, officially ruled a suicide, has been treated skeptically by many, for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the real circumstances of his death, it has led to scores of Americans embracing the...
Author
Publisher
Trine Day
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The July 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and his subsequent death that August brought national as well as international attention to a sex ring where certain members of the power elite sexually abused and exploited female minors and young women. Epstein's death, officially ruled a suicide, has been treated skeptically by many, for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the real circumstances of his death, it has led to scores of Americans embracing the...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"[Gore] knows how to hook his readers from the opening line." --Richard North Patterson Graham Gage is back! The private investigator with an unfailing moral compass--whom Cornelia Read, author of The Crazy School, calls a "James Bond for grown-ups"--returns in Power Blind, another high-stakes political thriller from Steven Gore. The murder of a "fixer" for the wealthy and corrupt puts Gage on the trail of a conspiracy that threatens American democracy,...
Author
Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's the statehouses, stupid." Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan -- and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump's "Big Lie" -- it's anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy. Because these statehouses no longer operate as functioning democracies, these unknown politicians have...
14) One on the House
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Flat broke at the end of their stay in New York City, Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham can only make it as far as New Jersey on their voyage back home. When they stop by a local bar for something to lift their spirits, they find it in disrepair and the owner in none too better shape himself. As desperate as they are to make it back to San Diego, it's just not in their nature to leave the poor guy there. And if they're going to lend a...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The scam of supply-side economics is clearly and convincingly explained in a classic of political journalism (Michael Lewis). American politics has been hijacked. Over the past three decades, a fringe group of economic hucksters has corrupted and perverted our nation s policies. With dark, engaging wit, Jonathan Chait reveals how these canny zealots first took over the Republican Party and then gamed the political system and the media so that once...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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.
In...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
For the first time, this book reveals the true story of Maundy Gregory, the man responsible for "An Insult to the Crown." It reveals for the first time the names of the individuals who purchased titles and influence from Lloyd George.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A tour de force account of seduction, power, and betrayal in the biggest political sex scandal of its age The Profumo Affair rocked the British establishment like no scandal before or since. The Tory war minister, John Profumo, had taken up with a teenager named Christine Keeler, who was also sleeping with a Soviet intelligence agent. The ensuing inquiry revealed a hidden underworld in which men of the ruling classes and politicians cavorted with...
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city....
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