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longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
During his second year in the House, he wrote—himself, with no staff assistance—a bill embodying the old People’s Party dream of intensified government regulation of railroads, by giving the government authority over the issuance of new securities by the railroads. Happening, by chance, to see the bill, Louis D. Brandeis, then one of President Wils
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Congressman Vito Marcantonio
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
At Roosevelt’s direction, legislation had been drafted giving the federal government authority to regulate the issuance of securities for the protection of those who bought them. Rayburn, who had seen so many financially unsophisticated farmers invest the little spare cash they had been able to scrape together in worthless stocks or bonds, had foug
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
The Marshall Space Flight Center is run by one man, William R. Lucas. His style of management can be best described as feudalistic. In his ten-year tenure as Center Director, he established a personal empire built on the “good ol' boy” principle. The only criterion for career advancement is total loyalty to this man. The loyalty to country, NASA, t
... See moreAllan J. McDonald • Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
The FCC could be expected to be sensitive to any requests from Sam Rayburn’s boy. Furthermore, the Rayburn connection aside, the FCC, so short on allies in Congress, could be expected during this life and death struggle to be particularly sensitive to a congressman who was actively and energetically fighting in Congress on its behalf. And that was
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