Coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers : accountability for those who caused the crisis / John Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, John, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government accountability--United States.

Government accountability.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects--United States.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects--United States.

Economics.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2022.

Summary:

"In 2020, hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols"-- Provided by publisher

During the COVID-19 epidemic, hundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people. Nichols shows how President Donald Trump, his inner circle and others downplayed the crisis and mishandled the response. Profiteers fed at the public trough and added pandemic profits to grotesquely bloated fortunes. There must be accountability-- and Nichols is not afraid to name names. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Preface: Accountability is a dish best served fresh, and hot

Introduction: In the name of Mike Jackson

The killing presidency of Donald Trump

Mike Pence: Yes-man of the Apocalypse

The grounding of Jared Kushner

The unmasking of Mark Meadows

Mike Pompeo's cold war against science and solidarity

How Betsy DeVos tried to leverage a pandemic to privatize public education

Elaine Chao let them die

Mitch McConnell's fatal bargain

How Rand Paul got Covid-19 wrong, wrong, and wrong again

Have another shot of hydroxychloriquine, Ron Johnson

The Kristi Noem nightmare

Ron DeSantis's imperial overreach

Andrew Cuomo's broken halo

The deadly delusions of Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Rebecca Bradley

That time Rahm Emanuel offshored America's ability to fight a pandemic

Pfizer's vaccine profiteering

Drowning Grover Norquist's anti-government delusion in the bathtub of his own hypocrisy

The pandemic profiteering of Jeffrey Preston Bezos

Conclusion: The United States of impunity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Nichols, John. Coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers.

ISBN:

9781839763779

1839763779

1839764252

9781839764257

OCLC:

1283899529

Publisher Number:

99989829846