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American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats
Among our most celebrated and notorious Americans, these monsters are the corrupt, greedy, power-mad, and vicious betrayers of the dreams of fair play and equal opportunity, the practitioners of a catalog of anti-democratic vice: from anti-Semitism and union-busting to racism and murder. Organized in Dantesque circles, American Monsters remembers history a little differently than it is taught in school. Indian exterminator President Andrew Jackson, Jew-baiting propagandist Henry Ford, and nearly forty other malefactors whose evil cores have been relegated to footnotes, are brought to account. From Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Roger Taney, to robber barons and captains of industry like Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie; from Ezra Pound and Col. Tom Parker to cops and criminals like Alan Pinkerton and Charles Manson, American Monsters is provocative and entertaining history that you won't read anywhere else. With specially commissioned essays by veteran chroniclers such as Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, Ishmael Reed, Steve Earle, Danny Schechter, Nat Hentoff, James Ridgeway, Joe Conason, Michael Wolff, Danny Goldberg, Will Blythe, and Legs McNeil, this collection of national malfeasance—edited by award-winning columnist Jack Newfield—holds up a dark mirror to the national character. .
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The Poor Plutocrats
Essentially a tale of incident and adventure it is one of the best novels of that inexhaustible type with which I am acquainted It possesses in an eminent degree the quality of vividness which R. L. Stevenson prized so highly and the ingenuity of its plot the dramatic force of its episodes and the startling unexpectedness of its dénouement are all in the Hungarian master’s most characteristic style..
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The Poor Plutocrats
Mór Jókai -- also known as Maurus Jókai -- was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist He originally studied law and became an advocate in what is now Budapest Encouraged by the reception of his first play, The Jewish Boy, he turned to writing, producing Working Days, and becoming editor of Életképek, the leading Hungarian literary journal. Following a revolution and the deposition of the Hapsburg dynasty, he became a political suspect. He spent the next fourteen years reviving the Magyar language, producing thirty romances and numerous other works. After the re-establishment of the Hungarian Constitution, he sat in parliament for twenty years, founded and edited the government organ Hon, and was later elevated to the upper house by the king. The Poor Plutocrats is an adventure story. The book concerns "Fatia Negra," or "The Black Mask," who leads a double life: brigand by night, and respectable baron by day. The tale includes mysterious bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners and murderers, plus portraits of Hungarian and Romanian peasant life in the later 1800s. Jókai rises to the sort of breathless excitement produced by Dumas..
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