political corruption

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The best democracy money can buy

a tale of billionaires & ballot bandits
2016
Presents a collection of reports by investigative journalist Greg Palast in which he provides evidence to support his claims of wrongdoing in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, as well as by Wal-Mart, the World Bank, Pat Robertson, and other individuals, organizations, and corporations.

Political scandals

our democratic system prevails
1998
Contains a selection of documents that provide insight into several of the political scandals that have occurred throughout American history.

The golden age

a romance of the far future
2002
Phaethon, living in an interplanetary utopian society ten thousand years in the future, embarks on a quest to find his true identity when he learns that parts of his memory were removed and stored by a government Phaethon believed to be totally honorable.

New York exposed

the gilded age police scandal that launched the progressive era
Chronicles the history of the first major crusade to cleanup New York City of crime after Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, a Presbyterian minister, went out into the city in diguise and gathered inforamtion against the corrupt police department.

Voter fraud

2016
Contains fifteen essays that debate issues related to voter fraud, discussing redistricting, electronic voting, absentee ballots, non-citizen voting, and other topics.

The last of the president's men

2015
"Reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions"--Provided by publisher.

Red notice

a true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice
2015
"A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin s corruption."--From publisher.

An uninterrupted view of the sky

In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.

Dead Girl Moon

2015
Grace, a scheming runaway, JJ, her fostercare sister, and Mick, the son of a petty thief, become entangled in the investigation of a teen prostitute's murder in a small, corrupt Montana town.

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