Title:
Throw them all out : how politicians and their friends get rich off insider stock tips, land deals, and cronyism that would send the rest of us to prison / Peter Schweizer.
Author:
Schweizer, Peter, 1964-
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Call Number:
JK2249 .S35 2011
Abstract:
Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses the state of government and the depths of its political corruption.
ISBN:
9780547573144
Physical Description:
xxvii, 211 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
Congressional cronies. The drug trade ; Crisis for all, opportunity for some ; IPOs : Invest in Politicians Often ; This land is my land -- Capitalist cronies. Spreading the wealth-- to billionaires ; Warren Buffett : Baptist and bootlegger ; Cronies on parade : hedge funds, defense contractors, colleges, Big Oil-- and George Soros -- Breaking the back of crony capitalism. Some are more equal than others ; Why this matters ; What needs to be done.
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