Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy (War and Peace Library)

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy (War and Peace Library)

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From Truman to Trump, the deep corruption of our political leaders unveiled.Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the twentieth century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor of President Trumps assault on traditional ethical and legal norms, Jonathan Marshall challenges the myth of a golden age of American democracy. Drawing on a host of original archival sources, he tells a shocking story of how wellprotected criminals systematically organized the corruption of American national politics after World War II.Marshall begins by tracing the extraordinary scandals of President Truman, whose political career was launched by the murderous Pendergast machine in Missouri. He goes on to highlight the role of organized crime in the rise of McCarthyism during the Cold War, the nearderailment of Vice President Johnsons political career by two mobrelated scandals, and Nixons careerlong association with underworld figures. The book culminates with a discussion of Donald Trumps unique history of relations with the traditional American Mafia and newer transnational gangs like the Russian mafiyaand how the latter led to his historic impeachment by the House of Representatives.

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