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Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy. Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the Gilded Age. They are evolving into political entities that often have more influence than the actual government, bending...
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A lusty environmental picaresque, McKenzie Rising satirizes our shortfalls while celebrating our resilience and the triumph of community. As an instrument of social critique, satire operates on the premise that human folly is correctable. McKenzie Risingis intended as a spirited corrective to some of the amendable follies we lug with us as we careen on into the (post)-Trump, (post)-Corona years"--
"A cultural satire, McKenzie Rising follows the...
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Language
English
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"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
In this book the author goes deep inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States. He investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil's annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries, equivalent to the GDP of Norway. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil's sway over politics...
Author
Publisher
Principal
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
In this landmark work of investigative journalism, the author, using a wealth of untapped sources, reveals how Germany's wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich, and exposes how America'spolitical expediency enabled these billionaires to get away with their crimes.
El oscuro pasado nazi de las grandes empresas alemanas. En 1946, Günther Quandt, el patriarca de uno de los imperios...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation’s geography;...
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