Dark Quadrant : Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy (War and Peace Library)

Marshall, Jonathan

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers（2021/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 416 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781538142493
• DDC分類 364.1060973

Full Description

Dark Quadrant traces the systematic corruption of businesspeople and politicians from 1945 to 1974 and draws links to our current political crisis. Documenting the collaboration of Presidents Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters. President Trump represents, in many ways, a twisted culmination of the forces described in this book.

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part I: The Truman Years

2. Organized Crime and Corruption in the Truman Administration

3. Anti-Communism: Mobsters, the FBI, the China Lobby

Part II: From Ike to LBJ

4. The Dominican Connection: Dictators, Mobsters, and Caribbean Intrigues

5. The Friends of LBJ - I: Bobby Baker and the Mob

6. The Friends of LBJ - II: The Murchisons

7. Henry Crown, the Chicago Outfit, and the TFX Scandal

Part III: Richard Nixon

8. Nixon's Caribbean Milieu, 1950-1968

9. In the White House: Nixon and the Mob, 1969-1974

10. Nixon, Howard Hughes, the CIA, and the Mob: The Road to Watergate

Part IV: Conclusion

11. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump

Bibliography

Notes