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100 1  Bernstein, Andrea,|d1961-|eauthor. 
245 10 American oligarchs :|bthe Kushners, the Trumps, and the 
       marriage of money and power /|cAndrea Bernstein. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
300    484 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-468) and 
       index. 
520    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.  
600 10 Trump, Donald,|d1946-|xFamily. 
600 10 Kushner, Jared,|d1981- 
600 10 Trump, Ivanka,|d1981- 
650  0 Presidents|zUnited States|xFamily. 
650  0 Businesspeople|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Children of presidents|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Presidents|zUnited States|xStaff|vBiography. 
651  0 New York (N.Y.)|vBiography.