| Description |
xv, 320 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: Accountability is a dish best served fresh, and hot -- Introduction: In the name of Mike Jackson -- The killing presidency of Donald Trump -- Mike Pence: Yes-man of the Apocalypse -- The grounding of Jared Kushner -- The unmasking of Mark Meadows -- Mike Pompeo's cold war against science and solidarity -- How Betsy DeVos tried to leverage a pandemic to privatize public education -- Elaine Chao let them die -- Mitch McConnell's fatal bargain -- How Rand Paul got Covid-19 wrong, wrong, and wrong again -- Have another shot of hydroxychloriquine, Ron Johnson -- The Kristi Noem nightmare -- Ron DeSantis's imperial overreach -- Andrew Cuomo's broken halo -- The deadly delusions of Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Rebecca Bradley -- That time Rahm Emanuel offshored America's ability to fight a pandemic -- Pfizer's vaccine profiteering -- Drowning Grover Norquist's anti-government delusion in the bathtub of his own hypocrisy -- The pandemic profiteering of Jeffrey Preston Bezos -- Conclusion: The United States of impunity. |
| Summary |
"In 2020, hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Government accountability -- United States.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781839763779 (hardback) |
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1839763779 (hardback) |
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