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The “top journalist in America
and the funniest” (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes
his previous New York Times bestseller a step further
with hot undercover dispatches—hanging out the dirty
underpants of the “armed and dangerous clowns that rule
us.”
A White House spokesman said, “We hate
that sonovabitch.” They’re not alone: From corporate suites
to Osama’s cave, they fear what Britain’s Guardian
calls “investigations up there with Woodward and Bernstein—and
a lot funnier.” But Greg Palast’s fanatic following (nearly
two million readers of his Web column) has made him “a cult
fave among progressives” (Village Voice) who can’t
wait for his next release.
Palast’s old-style gum-shoe detective work
to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes
to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program
to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep
it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television
reporter’s new book. Armed Madhouse is illustrated
with dozens of documents marked “secret” and “confidential”
that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast’s
hands.
You won’t find Palast in The New York
Times (except its bestseller list), but you will read
his reports on the hottest Web sites worldwide, hear him regularly
on Air America and the Pacifica radio networks, and see his
stories reappearing as the basis for Eminem’s hit video “Mosh,”
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, and sampled by a dozen
of today’s top platinum rock artists.
Greg Palast’s writings
have appeared in The Washington Post, Harper’s,
and The Nation. He’s been a guest on Politically
Incorrect, C-Span’s Washington Journal, and does
regular investigative reports for BBC Nightline. Winner
of Salon.com’s 2001 “Politics Story of the Year,” Greg Palast
is a legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership
worldwide. He divides his time between New York and London.
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