Corruption

Behind closed doors, power and money change hands in ways the public was never meant to see — this section pulls back the curtain on the backroom deals, financial crimes, and institutional rot that shape our world. From Wall Street fraudsters and shadowy global banks to political elites and corporate empires built on lies, these books expose the hidden machinery of greed that operates just beneath the surface of society.

Corruption خلاصه کتاب‌ها

Fight Oligarchy

اثر Bernie Sanders • 2025

Three billionaires behind one president. The diagnosis of American oligarchy, and the cure.

4.37

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🏛️ American Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power

Fight Oligarchy

Three billionaires behind one president. The diagnosis of American oligarchy, and the cure.

اثر Bernie Sanders 2025 160 صفحه

4.37

۳٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🏛️ American Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power

آزادی یا استبداد

اثر کریستینا مارتین خیمنز • 2024

Those seventeen UN goals to save the world are actually a plan to own it.

4.03

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🤔 Conspiracy Theories 🌐 Anti-Globalism 🏛️ Global Governance

آزادی یا استبداد

Those seventeen UN goals to save the world are actually a plan to own it.

اثر کریستینا مارتین خیمنز 2024 493 صفحه

4.03

۷۱ امتیاز

🤔 Conspiracy Theories 🌐 Anti-Globalism 🏛️ Global Governance

The Great Indian Fraud

اثر Smarak Swain • 2020

Financial innovation outruns regulation by years. In that gap, India's biggest frauds are built.

4.21

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🕵️ Financial Fraud 🏢 Corporate Crime 💰 Money Laundering

The Great Indian Fraud

Financial innovation outruns regulation by years. In that gap, India's biggest frauds are built.

اثر Smarak Swain 2020

4.21

۷۷ امتیاز

🕵️ Financial Fraud 🏢 Corporate Crime 💰 Money Laundering

The Devil's Chessboard

اثر David Talbot • 2015

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

4.35

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🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations

The Devil's Chessboard

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

اثر David Talbot 2015 704 صفحه

4.35

۸٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

اثر William K. Black • 1995

Bank CEOs were the biggest bank robbers, using deregulation to loot their own institutions.

4.06

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🏦 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Accounting Fraud

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

Bank CEOs were the biggest bank robbers, using deregulation to loot their own institutions.

اثر William K. Black 1995 352 صفحه

4.06

۱۸۵ امتیاز

🏦 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📊 Accounting Fraud

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse

اثر William Neuman • 2022

How a nation sitting on the world's largest oil reserves starved its own people.

4.13

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🛢️ Petrostates 🇻🇪 Venezuelan Politics ⛓️ Resource Curse

Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse

How a nation sitting on the world's largest oil reserves starved its own people.

اثر William Neuman 2022 352 صفحه

4.13

۱٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🛢️ Petrostates 🇻🇪 Venezuelan Politics ⛓️ Resource Curse

The Plot to Seize the White House

اثر Jules Archer • 1973

Wall Street plotted a fascist coup against FDR. The general they recruited was the wrong man.

4.03

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🏛️ American Politics 🕰️ 1930s America ⚠️ Fascism In America

The Plot to Seize the White House

Wall Street plotted a fascist coup against FDR. The general they recruited was the wrong man.

اثر Jules Archer 1973 290 صفحه

4.03

۵۰۰+ امتیاز

🏛️ American Politics 🕰️ 1930s America ⚠️ Fascism In America

American Reckoning

اثر Jonathan Alter • 2024

Covering Trump's hush money trial, a journalist confronts his own faith in American democracy.

3.80

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🗳️ Political Memoirs ⚖️ Trial Reporting 🏛️ Democratic Erosion

American Reckoning

Covering Trump's hush money trial, a journalist confronts his own faith in American democracy.

اثر Jonathan Alter 2024 256 صفحه

3.80

۹۰ امتیاز

🗳️ Political Memoirs ⚖️ Trial Reporting 🏛️ Democratic Erosion

Laboratories of Autocracy

اثر David Pepper • 2021

How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.

4.48

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🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Laboratories of Autocracy

How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.

اثر David Pepper 2021 452 صفحه

4.48

۳۳۸ امتیاز

🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🗳️ Voter Suppression

An Enemy of the People

اثر Henrik Ibsen • 1882

The town's healing waters are poison. The doctor who proves it becomes the enemy.

3.87

۱۵٬۰۰۰+

🎭 Political Drama 📢 Whistleblower'S Dilemma 👥 Mob Rule

An Enemy of the People

The town's healing waters are poison. The doctor who proves it becomes the enemy.

اثر Henrik Ibsen 1882 160 صفحه

3.87

۱۵٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🎭 Political Drama 📢 Whistleblower'S Dilemma 👥 Mob Rule

It Was All a Lie

اثر Stuart Stevens • 2020

Trump didn't hijack the GOP. A veteran strategist admits the party was always heading here.

4.12

۴٬۰۰۰+

🏛️ American Conservatism 📖 Political Memoir 🎭 White Grievance

It Was All a Lie

Trump didn't hijack the GOP. A veteran strategist admits the party was always heading here.

اثر Stuart Stevens 2020 256 صفحه

4.12

۴٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🏛️ American Conservatism 📖 Political Memoir 🎭 White Grievance

The Destructionists

اثر Dana Milbank • 2022

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

4.21

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🐘 Republican Party 🏛️ American Conservatism 🔀 Political Polarization

The Destructionists

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

اثر Dana Milbank 2022 416 صفحه

4.21

۱٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🐘 Republican Party 🏛️ American Conservatism 🔀 Political Polarization

Beyond Outrage

اثر Robert B. Reich • 2012

The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.

4.06

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🏚️ Economic Inequality 💰 Money In Politics 🏢 Corporate Power

Beyond Outrage

The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.

اثر Robert B. Reich 2012 72 صفحه

4.06

۲٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🏚️ Economic Inequality 💰 Money In Politics 🏢 Corporate Power

Bedingt dienstbereit. Im Herzen des BND - die Abrechnung eines Aussteigers

اثر Norbert Juretzko • 2004

The inside story of an intelligence agency so inept the Americans bought their agents a Winnebago.

3.67

۲۱

🕵️ German Intelligence 📋 Bureaucratic Failure 📢 Whistleblowing

Bedingt dienstbereit. Im Herzen des BND - die Abrechnung eines Aussteigers

The inside story of an intelligence agency so inept the Americans bought their agents a Winnebago.

اثر Norbert Juretzko 2004 382 صفحه

3.67

۲۱ امتیاز

🕵️ German Intelligence 📋 Bureaucratic Failure 📢 Whistleblowing

Trumpocracy

اثر David Frum • 2018

American democracy didn't fall; it was hollowed out by lies and a party that looked away.

3.88

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🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🇺🇸 Trump Administration 💰 Political Corruption

Trumpocracy

American democracy didn't fall; it was hollowed out by lies and a party that looked away.

اثر David Frum 2018 301 صفحه

3.88

۳٬۰۰۰+ امتیاز

🏛️ Democratic Backsliding 🇺🇸 Trump Administration 💰 Political Corruption

The People's Business

اثر Lee Drutman • 2004

Corporations are not people, yet they won human rights and bought the democracy that created them.

4.33

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🏛️ Corporate Accountability ⚖️ Corporate Personhood 💰 Money In Politics

The People's Business

Corporations are not people, yet they won human rights and bought the democracy that created them.

اثر Lee Drutman 2004 360 صفحه

4.33

۱۲ امتیاز

🏛️ Corporate Accountability ⚖️ Corporate Personhood 💰 Money In Politics

Le ripou des Hells

اثر Éric Thibault • 2023

A celebrated anti-gang cop sold police secrets to the Hells Angels. His buyer kept the tapes.

4.03

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🕴️ Organized Crime 🏍️ Biker Gangs 👮 Police Corruption

Le ripou des Hells

A celebrated anti-gang cop sold police secrets to the Hells Angels. His buyer kept the tapes.

اثر Éric Thibault 2023 384 صفحه

4.03

۵۹ امتیاز

🕴️ Organized Crime 🏍️ Biker Gangs 👮 Police Corruption

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