With sharp, detail-filled style Morris and McGann are sure to stir up controversy with the hard facts laid out in this book. From claims about the slave state of Dubai; secretly buying everything from MGM to the Queen Mary to credit card companies abuse; charging interest every way they can, Screen-Studios product; and, placing tobacco in PG films ...
At crucial moments eight years apart, two Secret Service agents are distracted--with disastrous results: in one case, a presidential candidate is assassinated, and in the second, one is kidnapped. The two disgraced agents set out to trace the myriad connections between the events.
America's canniest conservative political analyst takes on the State of the Nation, 2007-8 ...and finds new outrages around every corner. Now, in his liveliest and most entertaining book yet, Morris wages his most ambitious campaign since Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996: An all-encompassing, no-holds-barred assault on the villains who live to ...
A renegade faction of the CIA has created an elaborate scheme to gain primacy over the FBI via the manipulation of key members of Congress. The plan seems simple when they uncover a bribery scam produced by lobbyist Danny Buchanan. Assassinate Danny and his beautiful assistant Faith Lockhart, force the bribed legislators to support the CIA over ...
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expose of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret ...
This revisionist view of President Clinton and his administration finds more to credit than to blame, while acknowledging the stunning shadow cast by the Lewinsky affair. Journalist Klein sees a coherent foreign policy and a record of domestic achievement over two terms. His portrayal of Clinton is kinder than the Clintonesque character in Klein's ...
This behind-the-scenes look at the investigation into the Clinton-Jones-Lewinsky scandal presents a somewhat critical view of Independent Counsel Starr's office, a harsh view of Linda Tripp, and an even harsher view of the media.
This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.
This investigative report into the issues involving Cuba-U.S. relations looks at the roots and development of the deeply-held resentments in Havana and within Miami's Cuban exile community, as well as at the power politics and opportunism evinced by elected officials.
In this explosive new book, former union official and President Bush's original nominee for Secretary of Labor reveals how unions have virtually abandoned the workers in order to influence politics and government policy in ways that benefit their leaders.
A preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush and makes a compelling case for impeachment.
Short, sharp, and oftentimes shocking, Keith Olbermann's "Special Comments" have made his nightly MSNBC program, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," must-see viewing-and the fastest-growing news show on cable TV. In these segments, Olbermann calls out the perpetrators of mismanagement, brutality, cronyism, and the appalling lack of accountability at ...
Public affairs - or sex scandals - involving prominent politicians are as revealing of American culture as they are of individual peccadillos. Implicated in their unfolding are a broad range of institutions, trends, questions, and struggles, including political parties, Hollywood, the Christian right, new communications technologies, the ...
In "Honest Patriots", renowned public theologian and ethicist Donald W. Shriver, Jr. argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in our nation's past. The failure to do so skews the relations of many Americans to one another, breeds ongoing hostility, and damages the health of our society. Events in American history ...
George W. Bush came into office only after a bitterly contested election result, but has since proceeded to establish himself as one of the most powerful, and one of the most arrogant, of all American presidents. He has involved the USA in the invasion of two Islamic countries, seems determined to impose global American hegemony, and has launched ...
In this explosive book, two veteran congressional investigators deliver detailed evidence of the most shocking Clinton scandal exposed to date: How Bill Clinton compromised American security for Chinese money. 14 photos.
The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record from a liberal perspective, or those who want to arm themselves with talking points, facts, and figures for debates with conservatives, and at those seeking the perfect holiday gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in ...
In the style that made "Lost Rights" a classic, "the roving inspector general of the modern state" ("The Wall Street Journal"), takes a look at the Clinton-Gore years and the havoc they wrought. Now available in paperback, this edition includes an updated chapter on Clinton's last days.
Not a "how-to" book, so much as a "how we do it" primer, the Billionaires for Bush guide reveals the nuts and bolts of the art of Wealth and the Wealthy Attitude. Sections on Purchasing a President, Creative Accounting, and The Seven Habits of Avaricious CEOs lay out the power plays of the wealthiest one percent, while supplements on Elite Style, ...
In the face of the unprecedented threat the White House and its allies present to civil liberties, civil rights, the Constitution, international law, and the future of the planet, this persuasive collection makes the case that a drastically different political dynamic must be created right now.
If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions about American conduct in the world. This book provides a list of those questions and even ventures some answers in the form of key lessons from Iraq ...
The cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history.
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