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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 430 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"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
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 565 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Description
In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names;...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvii, 381 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps, portaits, photographs, facsimilies ; 24 cm.
Description
"In 1946, G?nther Quandt?patriarch of Germany?s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW?was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning with...
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