The Wolves Of K Street: Secret History How Big Money Took Over Government Luke Mullins Simon Schuster Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics Business & Finance

A Dazzling And Infuriating Portrait Of Fifty Years Corporate Influence In Washington The Wolves K Street Is “Not-So-Guilty Pleasure” (The New York Times): Irresistibly Dramatic Spectacularly Timely Explosive Its Revelations Impossible To Put Down 1970S Washington’s Center Power Began Shift Away From Elected Officials Big Marble Buildings Handful Savvy Handsomely Paid Operators Who Didn’t Answer Any Fixed Constituency Cigar-Chomping Son An Influential Congressman Illustrious Political Fixer With Weakness For Modern Art Watergate-Era Dirty Trickster City’s Favorite Cocktail Party Host—These Were Sort Men Now Ran Over Four Decades They’d Chart Ways Turn Their Clients’ Cash Into Leverage Abandoning Favor-Trading Smoke-Filled Rooms Increasingly Sophisticated Tactics Such As “Shadow Lobbying ” Where Underground Campaigns Sparked Seemingly Organic Public Outcries Pressure Lawmakers Taking Actions That Would Ultimately Benefit Interests Rather Than Ordinary Citizens Billions Dollars At Play These Dynasties Enshrined Pro-Business Consensus Guide Country’s Leaders—Democrats Republicans Alike Good Lobbyist Could Ghostwrite Bill Or Even Secretly Kill Piece Legislation Supported By President Both Houses Congress Majority Americans Yet Nothing Lasts Forever Amid Populist Backlash Soaring Inequality Peddlers Helped Usher Dc’s Alliance Suddenly Fray While Establishment Continue Invent Who’d Built Soon Find Themselves Under Legal Scrutiny On Verge Financial Collapse Worse One Up Dead Behind Eighteenth Green Exclusive Golf Club $1 500 Bottle Wine His Feed Bullet Head “Absorbing” Atlantic) “Engrossing” “Meticulously Researched” Tale Guardian)—Brought Life “Novelistic Detail” “Considerable Narrative Skill” Times)—The Essential Reading Anyone Looking Understand How Are Undermining American Democracy Σελίδες: 624 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0619 Διαστάσεις: 15 2X15 2Cm