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Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security Audiobook, by Janine R. Wedel Play Audiobook Sample

Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security Audiobook

Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security Audiobook, by Janine R. Wedel Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Pam Ward Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781483009353

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

111:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10:46 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

63:06 minutes

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1

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Publisher Description

A groundbreaking book that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how corruption and private interest have infiltrated every level of society

From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergent their political views, these groups seem united by one thing: outrage over a system of power and influence that they feel has stolen their livelihoods and liberties. Increasingly, protesters on both ends of the political spectrum and the media are using the word corrupt to describe an elusory system of power that has shed any accountability to those it was meant to help and govern.

But what does corruption and unaccountability mean in today's world? It is far more toxic and deeply rooted than bribery. From super PACs pouring secret money into our election system to companies buying better ratings from Standard & Poor's or the extreme influence of lobbyists in Congress, all embody a "new corruption" and remain unaccountable to our society's supposed watchdogs, which sit idly alongside the same groups that have brought the government, business, and much of the military into their pocket.

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About Janine R. Wedel

Janine R. Wedel is the author of Shadow Elite and the award-winning Collision and Collusion. She has written for the Nation, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Politico, and Salon, among others. She is a professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and has been a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation.

About Pam Ward

Pam Ward, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress’ Talking Books program. The fact that she can work with Blackstone Audio from the beauty of the mountains of Southern Oregon is an unexpected bonus.