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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Signed By
- Nobody
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- Unknown
- ISBN
- 9780670031412
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670031410
ISBN-13
9780670031412
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2359152
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thieves in High Places : They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Corruption & Misconduct, General, American Government / General, Government & Business
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-047958
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
973.931
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Introduction: Kleptocrat Nationxiii I. LOST AMERICA (The Bad News) 1. BushCo1 2. Never Have So Few Done So Much for So Few 20 3. Bad Apples 44 4. The Super-Duper Empire of King George the W 73 5. The Wobblycrats 98 II. AMERICA THE POSSIBLE (The Good News) 6. Even the Smallest Dog Can Lift Its Leg on the Tallest Building 111 7. Legacy 133 III. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (The Best News of All) 8. A Progressive Optimist in the Age of Bushwa 147 9. Public Spirit 150 10. Wal-Mart: How to Play Beat the Devil 166 11. Taking Charge of Dinner 194 12. No Sweat 210 13. The Road to Privacy 224 14. Donít Be an Idiot 237 IV. EPILOGUE 15. Bob Runs for President (A Drama in One Act ) 251 Connections 263 Index 271
Synopsis
America listens to Jim Hightower. More than eighty thousand people subscribe to The Hightower Lowdown Newsletterwhile his radio show is aired on more than sixty public and commercial radio stations. In They've Stolen Our Countryand It's Time To Take It Back, he takes on the Bushites, the Wobblycrats, and the corporate Kleptocrats, digging up behind-the-scenes dirt that the corporate media overlooks-like BushCo's "Friday Night Massacres," what's happened to our food, and the Bush plan for empire. But the book also offers grassroots solutions, drawing on Hightower's Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour, a traveling festival of rebellion against every tentacle of the corporate-politico power grab. At kitchen tables all over America, Hightower has tapped into the thriving activist networks that are our country's grassroots muscle, and his book tells their uplifting stories of retaking control of their communities. This is the real America that the rest of the world doesn't get to see. With his unique blend of wit and outrage, Jim Hightower "lights a prairie fire"-and it's just the spark that his growing national audience craves., The Kleptocrats have taken over. A confederacy of corporate fat cats, Republican think tankers, Wobblycrats, empire builders, right-wing media barons, and just plain greedheads have heisted America's political process and our democratic ideals -- and are just about to dump our whole country into their giant bag of swag. Imagine that they would be doing if they'd actually won the election! Is this what the founders had in mind? Is this what you had in mind? Is this the best our country can be? Jim Hightower knows we can do better, knows that we don't have to settle for the plutocratic, autocratic, kleptocratic agenda of BushCo. Hightower is the most outspoken populist in America, and he's back in the nick of time, mad as hell, with a new book that is at once illuminating, hilarious, infuriating...and filled with hope. Fortunately for readers (unfortunately for our country), he has no shortage of material and targets these days. The economy is in the ditch, George W keeps fattening the rich at the expense of the rest of us, Rumsfeld is on the warpath for global domination, Ashcroft is insane, polluters rule, the Democrats are worse than pathetic, the media is a tasteless joke ... and we've got another corporate-sponsored made-for-TV presidential election coming up. What better time to speak the truth -- and to show people the way out of this mess? And who better than Hightower to have so much fun along the way? That's right, fun. Thieves in High Places is full of fight and fun. In it, Hightower spares us not an iota of outrage about what the Powers That Be are doing to our America, but he brings us the bad news with plenty of his laugh-out-loud Texas humor as he lays out the whole unappetizing mess that we find ourselves in. He identifies the culprits in government, in the corner offices of our great land, and in the big-box retail stores that are systematically destroying our downtowns -- and exploiting our workforce -- from coast to coast. But more than the catalog of evils that usually passes for political commentary these days, Thieves in High Places offers a battle cry, a rallying point, and a populist hall of fame, highlighting and celebrating people who have stood up to the bullies and regained their rights along with their dignity. His book is a road map for taking power back from the thieves and a welcome antidote to the passivity and defeatism that has dogged progressive-minded Americans for too long. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
JK2249.H54 2003
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