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Author Bernstein, Andrea, 1961- author.

Title American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power / Andrea Bernstein.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  973.9330922 BER    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  973.9330922 BER    AVAILABLE
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Description 484 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-468) and index.
Summary In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein creates a vivid portrait of two emblematic American families. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, which stretches from the Gilded Age through Nazi-occupied Poland to the rising nationalism and inequality of the twenty-first century. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and over 100,000 pages of documents, many previously unseen or long forgotten, Bernstein traces how the families grew rich on federal programs that bolstered the middle class, and then sheltered their wealth from tax collectors. Wielding half-truths, secrecy, and media manipulation, they blurred the lines between public and private interests, then leveraged political, prosecutorial, and judicial power to avoid legal consequences. At once intimate and sweeping, American Oligarchs reveals how these dynasties encouraged and profited from a system of political dark money that has pushed America to the precipice of oligarchy.
Subject Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Family.
Presidents -- United States -- Family.
Kushner, Jared, 1981-
Trump, Ivanka, 1981-
Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
Children of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
ISBN 9781324001874
1324001879
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