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The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the
implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine and
schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria. In a riveting account that weaves
history with fast-moving reportage and insider accounts, Sarah
Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption. Since the late
1990s, corruption has reached such an extent that some governments
resemble glorified criminal gangs. These kleptocrats drive
indignant populations to extremes-from revolution to militant
puritanical religion. Chayes plunges readers into some of the most
venal environments on earth and examines what emerges: Afghans
returning to the Taliban, Egyptians overthrowing the Mubarak
government (but also redesigning Al-Qaeda), and Nigerians embracing
both radical evangelical Christianity and Boko Haram. In many such
places, rigid moral codes are put forth as an antidote to the
collapse of public integrity. The pattern pervades history. Through
archival research, Chayes reveals that canonical political thinkers
such as John Locke and Machiavelli, as well as Nizam al-Mulk, all
named corruption as a threat to the realm. In a argument connecting
the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Thieves of State
presents a powerful new way to understand global extremism. And it
makes a compelling case that we must confront corruption: it is a
cause-not a result-of global instability.
America is corrupted, and everybody knows it. Vested interests have
bent government powers to serve themselves, not the citizens, with
dizzying results -- egregious Supreme Court rulings, revolving
doors and cozy deals between the state and the private sector, and
forty years of financial meltdowns. In this blistering book, Sarah
Chayes shows that today's corruption -- even the venality of the
Trump administration -- is part of global history, going back to
the invention of money itself. We're not dealing with 'bad apples'
lining individual pockets, but the widespread standard practice of
sophisticated networks spanning political and national boundaries.
But we can change this, individually, collectively and politically.
Searching and unflinching, 'Everybody Knows' exposes a rigged
system that strangles democracy, calling on readers everywhere to
challenge it.
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