Thieves in High Places : They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back
by Hightower, JimEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-29
Publisher(s): Plume
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Summary
In Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower takes on the Kleptocrats, Wobblycrats, and Bushites with hilarious results. Digging up behind-the-scenes dirt on stories the corporate news media overlooks (and don’t get him started on them!), Hightower reveals the real stories behind BushCo’s Friday Night Massacres,” what’s happened to our food, and the Bush plan for empire.With grassroots solutions, drawing on Hightower’s national Rolling Thunder Down- Home Democracy Tour—a traveling festival of rebellion against every tentacle of the corporate-politico power grab—Hightower is tapping into the activist network that is thriving at kitchen tables all over America. This is the real America the rest of the world doesn’t get to see, delivered with Hightower’s own hilarious brand of wit and outrage.
Author Biography
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, columnist, and the bestselling author of If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates and There-'s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Kleptocrat Nation | p. xiii |
| Lost America (The Bad News) | |
| BushCo | p. 1 |
| Never Have So Few Done So Much for So Few | p. 20 |
| Bad Apples | p. 44 |
| The Super-Duper Empire of King George the W | p. 73 |
| The Wobblycrats | p. 98 |
| America The Possible (The Good News) | |
| Even the Smallest Dog Can Lift Its Leg on the Tallest Building | p. 111 |
| Legacy | p. 133 |
| America The Beautiful (The Best News of All) | |
| A Progressive Optimist in the Age of Bushwa | p. 147 |
| Public Spirit | p. 150 |
| Wal-Mart: How to Play Beat the Devil | p. 166 |
| Taking Charge of Dinner | p. 194 |
| No Sweat | p. 210 |
| The Road to Privacy | p. 224 |
| Don't Be an Idiot | p. 237 |
| Epilogue | |
| Bob Runs for President (A Drama in One Act) | p. 251 |
| Connections | p. 263 |
| Index | p. 271 |
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