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Title:
Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout.
Author:
Teachout, Zephyr.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Call Number:
JK2249 .T43 2014
ISBN:
9780674050402
Physical Description:
viii, 376 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Four snuff boxes and a horse -- Changing the frame -- Removing temptations -- Yazoo -- Is bribery without a remedy? -- Railroads ties -- The forgotten art of lobbying -- The gilded age -- Two kinds of sticks -- The jury decides -- Operation Gemstone -- A West Virginia state of mind -- Citizens United -- The new snuff boxes -- Facts in exile, complacency, and disdain -- The anticorruption principle -- Appendix 1. Anticorruption constitutional provisions -- Appendix 2. Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century anticorruption laws.
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