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Predator Nation by Charles H Ferguson
Charles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin. In Predator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared the path to conquest. He reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers have become mere courtiers to the elite. And based on many newly released court filings, he details the extent of the crimes--there is no other word--committed in the frenzied chase for storied wealth that marked the 2000s. And, finally, he lays out a brief plan of action for how we might take it back.
Charles H. Ferguson won an Oscar in 2011 forInside Job, his documentary on the financial crisis, and was an Oscar nominee for his first documentary, No End In Sight, on the war in Iraq. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT, and has been a technology policy consultant to the White House and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as well as to leading technology companies including Apple, IBM, and Texas Instruments. He was the co-founder of Vermeer Technologies, which invented the web tool Front Page, later sold to Microsoft. A former visiting scholar at MIT and Berkeley, he has also been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has written four books, and is a life member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a director of the French-American Foundation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307952561 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307952568 |
| Title | Predator Nation |
| Author | Charles H Ferguson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Crown Currency |
| Year published | 2013-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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