The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters
Plume, 2003
Category:
Economics & Politics
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- How a purge of voter lists led to the Florida election debacle
- How Saudi money helped stifle U.S. investigations of the bin Ladens
- How big bucks buy FDA drug approval - in other words, how cash is corrupting democracy
Why you should read The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Investigative reporter Greg Palast is one of a kind. He delights in stinging big business and bulky government with facts both would prefer to ignore. Palast’s strengths: his honesty, his willingness to admit he may be wrong, his sense of humor, his research and sourcing, and his unbridled passion to uncover wrongdoing. His weaknesses: his Tom Wolfe-influenced pop prose, his assumption that a conspiracy slithers beneath every log and his unbridled passion to uncover wrongdoing. He uncovers scandals such as the stolen Florida election, presidential protection of the Saudi royals right down to bin Laden’s kin, bad energy and fiscal policy, and other mishaps and misdeeds, from the Exxon Valdez to Enron. Reading Palast is like drinking a stiff bolt of whiskey. It takes just a moment of reflection before you really start to burn. In this era of McJournalism, the citizenry needs more like him. getAbstract.com recommends his book to anyone growing weary of the status quo.
About the author
Greg Palast has been described by the Tribune Magazine as "the greatest investigative reporter of our time." Palast, an American, reports for the Guardian and the Observer in London, as well as the BBC. He went undercover to examine Enron years before the American press would touch the subject. He is a winner of the Financial Times’ David Thomas prize.
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