The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-04-27
Publisher(s): Plume
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Summary

"Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up." Vincent Bugliosi, author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership.

This exciting collection, now revised and updated, brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.

Author Biography

"The most important journalist of our time-dominating journalism on two continents," says Britain's Tribune magazine-but in his native America, Greg Palast's into-the-gut investigative reports for BBC Television's Newsnight and The Guardian papers are all but banned. Palast has broken some of the biggest stories of recent years: how Katherine Harris stole the 2000 election for Bush by illegally removing African Americans from voter rolls (named Salon's Politics Story of the Year) and how Bush killed off the FBI's investigation of the bin Laden family prior to the September 11 attack (awarded California State University's Project Censored Prize for a report too hot for U.S. media). Palast went undercover to investigate Enron's manipulations years before American papers would touch the topic-recognized as Britain's Story of the Year in 1999. Winner of the Financial Times' David Thomas Prize, Palast is a mainstream favorite in Europe, but in the United States he's the "cult fave" (The Village Voice), Guerrilla News Network's 2002 Reporter of the Year and the "journalist hero of the Internet" (Alan Colmes, Fox TV).

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