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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
by Greg Palast
Posted August 6, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org
A Plume Book, Current Affairs http://www.penguinputnam.com
(ISBN 0-452-28391-4)
$14.00
”Much of the guts for
[Michael] Moore's opening screed on how Bush ‘stole’ the 2000 election
came from investigative reporter Greg Palast, whose own book, The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy, has fast become a cult fave among progressives.”-
The Village Voice
Greg Palast, “the greatest
investigative reporter of our time” (Tribune Magazine) and a legend
among journalists on four continents has single-handedly broken some of
the most scandalous stories of the past decade, including:
*How Bush killed the FBI's
investigation of the financing of terrorist organizations by Saudi
Arabia.
*How the Bush family stole
the election in Florida.
*How Enron cheated, lied, and swindled its way into an energy monopoly.
These iconoclastic exposes-
along with groundbreaking reports on the World Bank, the IMF, the World
Trade Organization, Wal-Mart, Pat Robertson, and more are included in this
provocative collection of Palast’s most incendiary stories. Now updated
and revised, these reports offer a shocking portrait of corrupt power and
politics in today's global economy. Full of the acerbic wit that has made
Palast public enemy #1 among magnates and money-poison politicians, The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy is required reading for anyone who believes that the
First Amendment is important enough to use and that democracy cannot be
bought.
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“The type of investigative
reporter you don't see anymore, a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock
Holmes.” - Jim Hightower
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”Painstakingly researched,
distinguished, disturbing, make cause excessive teeth clenching.” -
Chicago Tribune.
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”Twisted.” - Katherine
Harris for the Secretary of State, on Greg Palast’s 2000 election
reports
Greg Palast,
“the greatest investigative reporter of our time” (Tribune Magazine) and
a legend among journalists on four continents has single-handedly broken
some of the most scandalous stories of the past decade, including: A Plume
Book, Current Affairs http://www.penguinputnam.com
(ISBN 0-452-28391-4) $14.00
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