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EVIL GENIUSES - KURT ANDERSEN KARTONIERT (TB)

How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain ¿ and left the rest of world
behind. Evil Geniuses is the secret history of how  over the last half century  from even
before Ronald Reagan through Donald Trump  America has sharply swerved away from its dream of
progress for the many to a system of unfettered profit and self-interest for the few. As the
social liberation of the 1960s finally ended in the chaos of Vietnam and Watergate  a cabal of
rich industrialists  business chiefs  wide-eyed libertarians and right-wing economic radicals
were waiting  determined to claw back everything they saw as rightfully theirs. Largely out of
sight  they rapidly built and funded a new empire of think tanks and academic institutions and
professional organisations  lobbying and political groups  using them to transform politics 
media  finance  the legal system and US laws to reinvent and control the political economy. A
throwback to the robber barons of a century earlier  they sold the remade system to the people
as a nostalgic return to traditional American values. Within a decade  Americäs flourishing
forward-thinking vision was incarcerated by the unchecked financial accumulation and political
power of the super-rich. Now  the moneymen are running the show. In this hugely entertaining
and deeply researched cultural and economic exposé  New York Times bestselling author Kurt
Andersen maps the rich history of intricate networks  unlikely connections and dark truths
which are controlling a nation  revealing how on earth America got to where it is now ¿ and
what it might do to win its progressive future back.

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