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Evil Geniuses - The Unmaking of America - A Recent History (Paperback)
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Evil Geniuses - The Unmaking of America - A Recent History (Paperback)
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How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain - and
left the rest of world behind. Evil Geniuses is the secret history
of how, over the last half century, from even before Ronald Reagan
through Donald Trump, America has sharply swerved away from its
dream of progress for the many to a system of unfettered profit and
self-interest for the few. As the social liberation of the 1960s
finally ended in the chaos of Vietnam and Watergate, a cabal of
rich industrialists, business chiefs, wide-eyed libertarians and
right-wing economic radicals were waiting, determined to claw back
everything they saw as rightfully theirs. Largely out of sight,
they rapidly built and funded a new empire of think tanks and
academic institutions and professional organisations, lobbying and
political groups, using them to transform politics, media, finance,
the legal system and US laws to reinvent and control the political
economy. A throwback to the robber barons of a century earlier,
they sold the remade system to the people as a nostalgic return to
traditional American values. Within a decade, America's flourishing
forward-thinking vision was incarcerated by the unchecked financial
accumulation and political power of the super-rich. Now, the
moneymen are running the show. In this hugely entertaining and
deeply researched cultural and economic expose, New York Times
bestselling author Kurt Andersen maps the rich history of intricate
networks, unlikely connections and dark truths which are
controlling a nation, revealing how on earth America got to where
it is now - and what it might do to win its progressive future
back.
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