Pigs at the trough : how corporate greed and political corruption are undermining America / Arianna Huffington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos, 1950-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

Political corruption--United States.

Political corruption.

Business ethics.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 275 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

The nationally syndicated columnist skewers corporate and government leaders who created an appalling system of book-cooking and fraud, lavishing in grossly inflated salaries and bonuses while they cheat the shareholders and citizens they claim to serve.

Contents:

Introduction: Twilight of the Corporate Gods 1

Pigs On Parade: Power, Perks, and Impunity 29

The Bloodless Coup: The Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy 77

The Enablers: A Conspiracy of Thousands 151

The Binge and the Reckoning: The Chickens Come Home to Roost 211.

Notes:

"Design by Barbara Sturman."

Includes index.

Introduction: Twilight of the Corporate Gods -- Pigs on Parade: Power, perks, and impunity -- The Bloodless Coup: The corporate takeover of our democracy -- The Enablers: A conspiracy of thousands -- The Binge and the Reckoning: How chickens come home to roost.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has Gotham Book Mart & Gallery bookmark laid in.

ISBN:

1400047714 :

OCLC:

51450511