Rachel Maddow

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1) Blowout: corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook

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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...

2) Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Physical Desc

x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

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"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...

3) Drift: the unmooring of American military power

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Physical Desc

275 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

4) Prequel: an American fight against Fascism

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Physical Desc

xl, 594 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

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A noted MSNBC anchor traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.

5) Prequel: an American fight against fascism

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Physical Desc

xxx, 382 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

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"Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...