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Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David
Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by
Donald Trump and his family. While the world watched Donald Trump's
presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong
grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking
the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a
money machine for himself, his family, and his courtiers. More than
$1.7 billion flowed into Donald Trump's bank accounts during his
four years as president. Foreign governments rented out whole
floors of his hotel five blocks from the White House while
lobbyists conducted business in the hotel's restaurants. Payday
lenders and other trade groups moved their annual conventions to
Trump golf resorts. And individual favor seekers joined his private
Mar-a-Lago club with its $200,000 admission fee in hopes of getting
a few minutes with the President. Despite earning more than $1
million every day he was in office, Trump left the White House as
he arrived-hard up for cash. More than $400 million in debt comes
due by 2024, and Trump still lacks the resources to pay it back.
"Few people are as well positioned to write an expose of the former
president as Johnston" (The Washington Post), and The Big Cheat
offers a guided tour of how money flowed in and out of Trump's
hundreds of enterprises, showing in simple terms how a corrupt
president used our government for his benefit, even putting
national security at risk. Johnston details the four most recent
years of the corruption that has defined the Trump family since
1885 and reveals the costs of Trump's extravagant lifestyle for
American taxpayers.
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New
York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies
will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety-completed revised
and updated. New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump
observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political
termites who have infested our government under the Trump
administration, destroying it from within and compromising our
jobs, safety, finances, and more. In It's Even Worse Than You
Think, Johnston exposes shocking details about the Mexican border
wall, and how American consumers will end up paying for it, if it
ever gets built; climate change, and all about Scott Pruitt who
spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads;
stocking-not draining-the swamp, despite his promise to do the
opposite, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and
billionaires; and the Kleptocracy, where Donald Jr. and Eric run an
eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the
appearance of conflict of interest-but not the reality. With story
after story, It's Even Worse Than You Think "diagnoses the Trump
administration as a...government by the least qualified and most
venal among us" (The Washington Post). This is "a momentously
thorough account of President Trump's alarmingly chaotic first year
in office...a precise and fiery indictment of an unstable,
unethical president that concludes with a call for us to defend our
democracy" (Booklist) and is "urgent, necessary reading" (Kirkus
Reviews).
Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when
Americans need it more than ever-here's what it should look like
(and why it matters to everyday people all over the country)
"Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and
outright lies about Social Security."-David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist and author The COVID-19 crisis has pulled
the curtain back on America's looming retirement income crisis, a
fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income
inequality. Never before have so many people's livelihoods and
futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social
Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social
Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J.
Altman and Eric R. Kingson made in their acclaimed first book,
Social Security Works!, presents the case for expanding Social
Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased; why
Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long
term care protections; and how we can pay for it all. Don't believe
the nearly four-decade, billionaire-funded campaign to convince us
that the program is destined to collapse. It isn't. At a time when
growing numbers of Americans are seeing beyond the false choice
between financial security for working people and financial
security for the federal government, this book eloquently makes the
case that universal programs that benefit all Americans (yes, even
the rich) make our country stronger and our lives more secure.
Social Security works because it embodies the best of American
values-the ones that will allow Americans to obtain financial
security and weather the next crisis.
Praised as a page-turner. just the kind of spotlight that is
needed' (Counterpunch) and, 'a potent chronicle of America's
'extreme inequality'' (Kirkus Reviews), DIVIDED collects the
writings of leading scholars, activists and journalists - including
Elizabeth Warren, President Barack Obama, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul
Krugman and Barbara Ehrenreich - to provide an illuminating,
multifaceted look at one of the most pressing issues facing the
world today.'
Compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston,
'Divided' gathers the writings of leading scholars, activists and
journalists to provide an illuminating, multifaceted look at
inequality. Combining surprising statistical evidence with
penetrating new analysis, the contributors explore the devastating
implications that income inequality has on areas as diverse as
education, justice, healthcare, social mobility and political
representation. This is an essential resource for anyone who cares
about the future of Western economies.
With a new Prologue and updated with new material, this six-week
"New York Times" bestseller reveals how everyday Americans are
being robbed to subsidize those who make millions. (Legal
Reference)
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"Free Lunch" answers the great mystery of our time: How did our
strong and growing economy give way to job uncertainty, debt,
bankruptcy, and fear for millions of Americans? Acclaimed reporter
David Cay Johnston reveals how government policies and spending
have reached deep into the wallets of the many to benefit the top
1% of the wealthiest.
He shows exactly who has been getting free lunches from the
government?from $100 million to Warren Buffett, to $1.3 billion to
the owners of the Yankees and Mets. But of course there's really no
such thing as a free lunch. The taxpayer always picks up the bill.
With his in depth reporting, vivid stories, and sharp analysis,
Johnston reveals the forces that shape our everyday economic
lives?and shows us how we can finally make things better.
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