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The Soprano State
New Jersey's Culture of Corruption
2008
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The New York Times bestseller, now a major documentary film: "A page-turner. You start out laughing and end up pounding the table for reform." —Tom Curley, CEO, Associated PressIt's not a joke. New Jersey leads the country in corruptionThe 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 bein...
The Soprano State
New Jersey's Culture of Corruption
2008
EN
The New York Times bestseller, now a major documentary film: "A page-turner. You start out laughing and end up pounding the table for reform." —Tom Curley, CEO, Associated PressIt's not a joke. New Jersey leads the country in corruptionThe 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 bein...
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Family of Secrets
The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
2010
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"Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments."-Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon and Partners in PowerHow did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-were those forces really vanquished by Obama's election? Award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker gives us the answers in Family of Secr...
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Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
2012
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“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.”For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—which they were mostly absent from at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that liberals were black America’s only protectors.It took the O. J. Simpson verdict—the...
Courage and Consequence
My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
2010
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From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For engineering victory after unlikely victory, Rove beca...
The Family
The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
2004
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From the First Lady of unauthorized, tell-all biography, this is the first real inside-look at the most powerful–and secretive–family in the world. From Senator Prescott Bush's alcoholism, to his son George Herbert Walker Bush's infidelities, to George Walker Bush's religious conversion, shady financial deals, and military manipulations, Kitty Kelley captures the portrait of a family that has whitewashed its own story almost out of existence.
Tangled Webs
How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
2011
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Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic.Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very foundation of our courts.With ...
When the Tea Party Came to Town
Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History
2012
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When the Tea Party Came to Towndemonstrates Robert Draper’s uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congress—sure to be a classic work.In When the Tea Party Came to Town, Robert Draper delivers the definitive account of what may turn out to be the worst congressional term in United States history. As he did in writing about President George W. Bush in Dead Cer...
Rising Star
The Making of Barack Obama
2017
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New York Times BestsellerRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as A...
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
2009
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A collection of incisive and outrageous interviews with the legendary journalist and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .Introduction by Christopher HitchensBristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy, The Paris Review, E...
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits
How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps
2012
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A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year--one that could save the election.Billionaires & Ballot Bandits...
The Jersey Sting
A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down
2011
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In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated "Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday." Now for the first time, the real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey's notoriously corrupt historyAmong the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the flamboyant deputy mayor of Jersey City, Leona Beldini, once a stripper using the stage name "Hope Diamond." At the center of it...










