Jane Mayer
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"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why ... have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against 'big government' led to the rise of a broad-based conservative movement. But ... Jane Mayer [argues] in this ... history...
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[2008]
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In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and...
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[1994]
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"After almost three years of intensive research, two superb journalists shed much light on the explosive issues that arose during the confirmation hearings: Did Thomas indeed harass Hill? How did Hill's allegations leak to the press? Why was the Senate Judiciary Committee unable to solve the mysteries surrounding the case?" "But as Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson show, the story of Thomas's ascension to the Court goes far beyond what emerged during the...
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2016
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464 PAGES. $ 29.95. 2015957180. JANE MAYER SHOWS IN THIS POWERFUL, METICULOUSLY REPORTED HISTORY, A NETWORK OF EXCEEDINGLY WEALTHY PEOPLE WITH EXTREME LIBERTARIAN VIEWS BANKROLLED A SYSTEMATIC, STEP-BY-STEP PLAN TO FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM. DN
7) Dark Money
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2016
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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against 'big government' led to the rise of a broad-based conservative movement. But as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views also played a key role by...