2002, ISBN: 9780745318462

London. 2002. Pluto Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0745318460. Forewords by Joe Conason & Will Hutton. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: www.anu-design.ie . key… Mehr…

London. 2002. Pluto Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0745318460. Forewords by Joe Conason & Will Hutton. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: www.anu-design.ie . keywords: Journalism Politics Corruption England America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From Tallahassee to Karachi, Houston to Santiago, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation, globally. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his acerbic wit and no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership worldwide. Palast is the investigative reporter who first revealed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush removed thousands of Democrats from voter rolls before the Presidential election. The explosive stories from Salon.com, the Washington Post, and the Guardian are included here, expanded with new evidence. There's also the story behind his undercover operation, ‘Lobbygate,' of corruption at the heart of Tony Blair's government, which earned him the distinction of being the first journalist ever personally berated on the floor of Parliament by a prime minister. Here is the celebrated series, ‘Sell the Lexus, Burn the Olive Tree,' in which Palast, working with a cache of documents from inside the World Bank, IMF and WTO shines a light on the dark machinery of the Iron Triangle of Globalization, what Jude Wanniski of the Wall Street Journal called, ‘Great writing on the Evil Empire of the IMF.' Plus: Palast's exposes of Pat Robertson (‘Anti-Christ, Inc.'), Wal-Mart stores (‘What Price a Store-gasm?') and more. inventory #33994 ISBN: 0745318460., 0<

ISBN: 9780745318462

Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, Karachi to Santiago, … Mehr…

Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, Karachi to Santiago, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation, globally. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his acerbic wit and no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership, worldwide. This exciting new collection brings together some of 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 for the Observer to break open the 'Lobbygate' scandal of corruption inside the Blair Cabinet. Included here are his reports on that story, which earned him the distinction of being the first journalist ever to be personally attacked on the floor of Parliament by a prime minister; his celebrated Washington Post expose on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, which made him "a legend and a hero on the Internet" (Alan Colmes / Fox Radio) when it ran in Salon.com; and recent stories on George W. Bush's pay-offs to corporate cronies, and the business-created 'energy crisis.' Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters. Media > Book, [PU: Pluto Press]<