Washington Babylon

Author : Mark Hyman
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642931532

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Washington Babylon by Mark Hyman Pdf

Since America’s founding, the nation’s capital has experienced more than its share of scandals; thankfully, Washington Babylon explores some of the dirtiest secrets that have occurred throughout US history. Some are from the earliest days of America’s founding and include the most famous people in history, like George Washington. Others are still fresh in our minds, as the dust has not even settled. In between, US history is littered with scandals from nearly all walks of life that were the most talked-about stories at the time. Many past scandals remain infamous, such as Watergate, Chappaquiddick, and Abscam. Other scandals that were once the biggest stories of the day have faded into obscurity. Washington Babylon reveals new details in some scandals that were not known when the story first broke, offering a whole new perspective for discussion. This is the most comprehensive collection of American scandals that will educate, entertain, shock, and perhaps, even titillate the reader.

Author : Alexander Cockburn,Ken Silverstein
Publisher : Verso
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015036038936

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Washington Babylon by Alexander Cockburn,Ken Silverstein Pdf

Paying open tribute to the tone and illustrative style of Kenneth Anger's classic Hollywood Babylon, the authors provide, in words and pictures, the scoop on the nefarious goings on in the capital city, the out of town arrivistes in the White House and on Capitol Hill, and the corrupt stew of permanent officials and hangers-on which surround them.

Author : Erin Runions
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823257362

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The Babylon Complex by Erin Runions Pdf

Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative ruminations on democratic law, liberal appeals to unity, Tea Party warnings about equality, and religious advocacy for family values. A composite biblical figure, Babylon is used to celebrate diversity and also to condemn it, to sell sexuality and to regulate it, to galvanize war and to worry about imperialism. Erin Runions explores the significance of these shifts and contradictions, arguing that together they reveal a theopolitics that tries to balance the drive for U.S. dominance with the countervailing ideals and subjectivities of economic globalization. Examining the confluence of cultural formations, biblical interpretations, and (bio)political philosophies, The Babylon Complex shows how theopolitical arguments for war, sexual regulation, and political control both assuage and contribute to anxieties about waning national sovereignty. Theoretically sophisticated and engaging, this remarkable book complicates our understanding of how the Bible affects U.S political ideals and subjectivities.

Author : Adam Tomkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198262906

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The Constitution After Scott by Adam Tomkins Pdf

This book provides a thorough and authoritative account of the constitutional implications of the Scott report. It is the only book-length treatment of this pivotal Report. The Scott report was established by John Major in 1992 to look into British government policy during the 1980s with regard to trade (including the arms trade) with Iraq and to establish whether the Government had lied to Parliament about its policy. Scott also investigated a number of high-profile and controversial criminal prosecutions which the government brought against several companies that were accused of illegally exporting "defence equipment" to Iraq. All of these cases failed. This book does more than merely relate the Scott story. It offers a full analysis of what the report means for the future of constitutional government, and constitutional reform, in Britain. Issues of lying to Parliament and ministerial responsibility; of the regulation and control of the civil service; and of open government and freedom of information are all reappraised in the light of Scott's discoveries. Central questions of secret intelligence and troublesome "public interest immunity certificates" are also considered. Unusually for a political scandal, Scott was not an exclusively national affair affecting only one country. There was a little-known equivalent to the Scott inquiry in the USA, and the lessons of the US experience are also discussed here - for the first time in Britain.

Author : John L. Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Espionage, Soviet
ISBN : LCCN:66005845

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Author : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3008461

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Annual Report by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Government publications
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106026929

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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate Pdf

Author : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
ISBN : SRLF:A0002355360

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Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New-York, and of the Tabulations and Deductions from the Reports of the Railroad Corporations, Made to the Board, for the Year Ending ... by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015081708391

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Monthly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melissa Rossi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440621031

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What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America by Melissa Rossi Pdf

A guide to the politicos, money men, lobbyists, and deal makers who really run America What foreign country has the power to send America crashing into a recession? Why is the USA still dangerously dependent on oil, when viable energy alternatives have existed for decades? Who made the call that we should return to nuclear energy—and then took a high-paying position with a nuclear company? Which youth group was a spawning ground for many contemporary power mongers? What lobbyists and special-interest groups are running the show on Capitol Hill—and exactly what tools of persuasion are they using? Melissa Rossi answers these questions and more in this timely and topical guide to who’s pulling the strings behind the scenes of American politics. This latest edition of Rossi’s popular What Every American Should Know. . . series puts the spotlight on our own backyard, covering topics like: • Which groups ensure that Americans pay more for drugs than any other nation • How our immigration laws are damaging the U.S. economy • Who’s telling the school boards what your child will learn • Who really benefits from U.S. foreign policy • How corporations and government agencies are spying on us • Why we should avoid electronic voting • Who killed the electric car and who exposed it Organized by topic for easy reference, What Every American Should Know About Who’s Really Running America shows Americans what is going on behind the scenes and how they can counterbalance the influence of a small, powerful elite to put the power back where it should be—in the hands of the people.

Author : Nigel Hamilton
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586485849

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Bill Clinton by Nigel Hamilton Pdf

From best-selling, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton, this is an insightful, prodigiously researched, and wonderfully readable account of Bill Clinton's first term in office. It shows how a well-meaning but naïve new president failed to assert true leadership in his first two years, and then illustrates how, in an astonishing act of self-reinvention, the president turned defeat into victory. Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency is a gripping tale of hubris and redemption—and a chronicle of one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern American politics.

Author : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525563938

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On Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes Pdf

From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future. “If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, she argues, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members. In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members. She then brings us up to the present as she shines a light on the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment and documents Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. Ultimately and most importantly, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they overtly determine the shape of our government, and how they affect all levels of society, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated.

Author : Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Missions
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3KH3

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Home Missions ... Annual Report of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions ... by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005972323

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Department of Defense appropriations for 1987 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Pdf

Author : Alan Johnson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004495517

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The American Worker and the Absurd Truth about Marxism by Alan Johnson Pdf

Collection of essays, reviews, translations and original documents centered around the question 'Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?'