LitArk » Books » Politics

Melissa Rossi - What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It

Here you can read online Melissa Rossi - What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2007, publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, genre: Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Book:
What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It
Author:
Melissa Rossi
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Genre:
Books / Politics
Year:
2007
Rating:
4 / 5
Favourites:
Add to favourites
Your mark:
- 80
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Description
Author's other books
Similar books

What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

A guide to the politicos, money men, lobbyists, and deal makers who really run America

What foreign country has the power to send America crashing into a recession? Why is the USA still dangerously dependent on oil, when viable energy alternatives have existed for decades? Who made the call that we should return to nuclear energyand then took a high-paying position with a nuclear company? Which youth group was a spawning ground for many contemporary power mongers? What lobbyists and special-interest groups are running the show on Capitol Hilland exactly what tools of persuasion are they using?

Melissa Rossi answers these questions and more in this timely and topical guide to whos pulling the strings behind the scenes of American politics. This latest edition of Rossis popular What Every American Should Know. . . series puts the spotlight on our own backyard, covering topics like:
Which groups ensure that Americans pay more for drugs than any other nation
How our immigration laws are damaging the U.S. economy
Whos telling the school boards what your child will learn
Who really benefits from U.S. foreign policy
How corporations and government agencies are spying on us
Why we should avoid electronic voting
Who killed the electric car and who exposed it
Organized by topic for easy reference, What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America shows Americans what is going on behind the scenes and how they can counterbalance the influence of a small, powerful elite to put the power back where it should bein the hands of the people.

Melissa Rossi: author's other books

Who wrote What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Table of Contents

A PLUME BOOK WHAT EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WHOS REALLY RUNNING AMERICA

Former National Geographic Traveler columnist, pop subculture correspondent for Newsweek, and biographer of Courtney Love, award-winning journalist MELISSA ROSSI changed career course after the 9/11 attacks. Since then, shes been gallivanting across the globe bringing geopolitics to the masses in her What Every American Should Know (WEASK) series for Plume. Kicking off with What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World, the collection includes WEASK About Europe, WEASK About Whos Really Running the World, and WEASK About Whos Really Running America. She is also the co-author of Think India (Dutton, 2007). Rootless Rossi suffers from urban deficit disordershe cant focus on one city for longbut is often spotted in exotic corners of Europe or Asia.

Praise for Melissa Rossis What Every American Should Know series

Snot-nosed Europeans think we Americans are dumber than bricks just because we dont know Zimbabwe from Zinfandel. Now Rossis slipping us the crib notes so we can palaver with the best of them. World-dumb to world-savvy in four hundred pageswhat a bargain: buy two and send one to the president.

Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse

Rossi seeks to wise up AmericansUSA Today

An alarming look at the powers that be.The Seattle Times

A funky foreign affairs seminar.Newsday

Fun and informative... absorbing on many levels.

The Chicago Tribune

Possession of this book is like having at ones beck and call an exceptionally smart, funny, knowledgeable, and well-traveled friend.

Jonathan Raban, author of Arabia and Bad Land: An American Romance

ALSO BY MELISSA ROSSI

What Every American Should Know
About the Rest of the World
What Every American Should Know
About Whos Really Running the World
What Every American Should Know About Europe

To Melik Boudemagh, the demigod of information

Acknowledgments

This book would be a pile of fragmented notes and a torrent of tears were it not for my dream come true of an editor, Emily Haynes, and the patience of Plumes guiding light, Trena Keating. As everyonefrom production editor Lavina Lee to production queen Norina Frabotta to copy editor Sheila Moody to proofreader John Morrone to interior designer Eve Kirch and cover designer Melissa Jacobyknows, this baby was a hair-puller and I thank them all deeply for tending to it with care and fitting the pieces of this puzzle together. Im also forever indebted to Zac Petit, who along with my advisor, researcher, guru, social life, and source of food, Melik Boudemagh, loaded me up with fantastic information. I was elated to have the chance to interview so many fascinating people for this book, including some of DCs weightiest voices. Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, political commentator Linda Chavez, Coushatta whistle-blower David Sickey, Public Citizens Joan Claybrook and Taylor Lincoln, Union of Concerned Scientists Dr. Edwin Lyman, Wikipedias Jimmy Wales, energy expert Michael Klare, National Geographic Traveler s Sheila Buckmaster, front group exposer Sheldon Rampton, and physicist Lawrence Krauss are but a few whose insights were invaluable. Website wizard Greg Landry was a huge help, and Khun Jo and Chairit made my life so much sweeter.

And, as usual, my family helped pull me through this, along with the always optimistic words of my agent, Bill Gladstone.

Introduction This book may break your heart, because this book is about a beautiful idea that has gone tragically wrong, or so it certainly appears

at the moment. Its about the government of the United States of America, and what the hell has happened to it. This is about how thugs took over the steering wheel of our countrybut they didnt yank it by force, they won it with money. This is a book about how our government has been corroded inside and out. And this is about what you can do about it.

The seventh year of the twenty-first centuryAD 2006was an alarming one. Granted, things had been pretty strange since wed turned the corner into the new millennium, whether you were talking about tsunamis and hurricanes or terrorism and American politics. But 2006 was the year the curtain dropped on DC, pulled down when a man widely admired as the capitals slickest lobbyist took a tumble and tripped up the cord. And when Jack Abramoff took his final dive, he revealed a gang of money-hungry scoundrels running our country and pawning it off to the highest bidder. Just as frightening as what they were doingnamely, selling out the country to corporate interestsmuch of what they were doing was perfectly legal. Abramoff and his cronies just took it a little too far.

Access, favors, and backslaps are for saleanybody who opens their wallet wide enough can rate a photo op or handshake with a VIP or can figure out a way to legally buy a new law that can help them rake in millions. Far too many of the elected officials weve pointed toward DC have largely bombed in their represent the people mission or in their ability to get anything done. Dead and gone are most of our distinguished statesmen with lofty ideals and high IQsthe peoples representatives who were capable of compromise, debate, and accomplishment. The lawmakers of the twenty-first century now juggle roles as corporate reps who cut deals for the companies that fill up campaign coffersand as salesmen for their states local big boys for whom they snatch multimillion-dollar federal giveawaysas well as backslappers of the special interest groups who turn out most to the polls.

Its not just Congress thats turned into an auction house. The executive branch now defines conflict of interest: its teeming with former lobbyists who loosen and snip regulations that might tie up Big Business. The Bush administration joyously appoints those who work to destroy from within: the Environmental Protection Agency ignores the advice of its own experts as it keeps dropping the bar, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton worked to open protected land to oil drilling, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao steamrolls unions, and our former United Nations ambassador John Bolton appeared hell-bent on weakening, if not entirely ruining, that institution.

Our judicial branch is under attackwith legislators and the White House eroding the courts powerpassing laws that sidestep rulings, as in the Terri Schiavo case. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez warns judges to stifle any constitutional concerns they might have, including ones over laws that allow the practice of holding enemy combatants without charge. Livid that courts made abortion legal and kicked prayer out of schools, conservative religious groups are trying to stack the courts with judges whom they believe will overturn landmark rulings, while Big Business throws millions into electing state and federal judges who favor business concerns over those of consumers.

Its tempting when looking at the mess in DC to deeply sigh, shrug, and hightail it out for a beer. But there are reasons to look this beast in the eye. Its our money thats being frittered away on costly and dangerous projectsbe they no-end-in-sight wars that are costing a billion dollars every two days or elaborate sci-fi schemes for security that so far have proved to be money-burning boondoggles. Its our world thats destroyed when environmental concerns are thrown out the window, and those are our rights that keep getting shredded. While Congress and the White House bow down to Big Business, the peoples concerns arent being addressedbe they for alternative energy cars or for reining in a ravenous credit card industry that wallops us with ballooned interest rates or for health care and prescription drugs that we can afford.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It»

Look at similar books to What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Saurav Jha

The Upside Down Book Of Nuclear Power

Jules Archer

Special Interests: How Lobbyists Influence Legislation

Jeremy Carl

Keeping the Lights on at America’s Nuclear Power Plants

Thomas R. Dye

Whos Running America?: The Obama Reign

Melissa L. Rossi

What Every American Should Know about the Middle East

Rossi Ernest Lawrence

Mind-body therapy: ideodynamic healing in hypnosis

Cravens

Power to save the world: the truth about nuclear energy

Irvine

Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

Francis J. Gavin

Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

George A. Gonzalez

Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States

Maxwell Irvine

Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

Mark Lynas

Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power

Reviews about «What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It»

Discussion, reviews of the book What Every American Should Know About Whos Really Running America: And What You Can Do About It and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.