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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters

Greg Palast author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th Feb '02

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This book digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today cover. From East Timor to Waco, Karachi to Santiago, it exposes some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation, globally.

This collection brings together some of Greg Palast's most powerful and influential writing of the past decade. His columns in the Observer have a cult following and he made headline news when he went undercover to break open the 'Lobbygate' scandal of corruption inside the Blair Cabinet.

Included here are his reports on that story, as well as his Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida and recent stories on George W. Bush's pay-offs to corporate cronies. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.

'The journalist I admire most. [Palast's] amazing work puts all the rest of us journalists to shame' -- George Monbiot, Guardian
'Courageous reporting!' -- Michael Moore
'The information is a hand grenade' -- John Pilger
'Exposes the hypocrisy and double-dealing of politicans and businessmen the world over' -- Mark Perryman, New Statesman
'An American hero in journalism' -- MediaChannel.org
'The raw material is so good and the stories told with such brio' -- Larry Elliot, Guardian
'Fucking brilliant' -- Mark Thomas

ISBN: 9780745318462

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 529g

224 pages