Dark Quadrant - Organized Crime, Big Business, Corruption of American Democracy

From Truman to Trump, the deep corruption of our political leaders unveiled.
Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the twentieth century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor of President Trump's assault on traditional ethical and legal norms, Jonathan Marshall challenges the myth of a golden age of American democracy. Drawing on a host of original archival sources, he tells a shocking story of how well-protected criminals systematically organized the corruption of American national politics after World War II.
Marshall begins by tracing the extraordinary scandals of President Truman, whose political career was launched by the murderous Pendergast machine in Missouri. He goes on to highlight the role of organized crime in the rise of McCarthyism during the Cold War, the near-derailment of Vice President Johnson's political career by two mob-related scandals, and Nixon's career-long associati

List of 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

About the author

By Jonathan Marshall

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Marshall, Marshall Jonathan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538142493
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4249-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: War and Peace Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Political corruption, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas