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Free Download Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions – And What We Can Do About It by Simon Kuper
English | June 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 1805221221 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 2.50 MB
The ‘Good Chaps’ theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the rules and do the right thing. They’re good chaps, after all. Yet Britain appears to have been taken over by bad chaps, and politics is awash with financial scandals, donors who have practically bought shares in political parties, and a shameless contempt for the rules.

Free Download Brett H. Mandel, "Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City’s Struggle against an Epithet"
English | ISBN: 1439924279 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being "corrupt and contented," Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterization. Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consentingis the story of a city’s confrontation with a history that threatens its future. Author Brett Mandel, who has been a reform-oriented government official and political insider, provides a detailed account of the corruption investigation of John Dougherty, one of the city’s most powerful political figures, in order to expose and explore networks of corruption.

Free Download Brett H. Mandel, "Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City’s Struggle against an Epithet"
English | ISBN: 1439924279 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
More than a century after muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens derided the city of Philadelphia as being "corrupt and contented," Philadelphia struggles to rise above this unfortunate characterization. Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consentingis the story of a city’s confrontation with a history that threatens its future. Author Brett Mandel, who has been a reform-oriented government official and political insider, provides a detailed account of the corruption investigation of John Dougherty, one of the city’s most powerful political figures, in order to expose and explore networks of corruption.

Free Download Steve Shukis, "Poisoned: Chicago 1907, a Corrupt System, an Accused Killer, and the Crusade to Save Him"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0991193814 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.8 mb
A gripping tale of murder, sorcery, and criminal justice in turn-of-the-century Chicago, Poisoned is the fascinating true story of a mysterious Bohemian fortune teller charged with murdering a half-dozen people by slowly poisoning them with arsenic. Poisoned details the horrific murders, and the incredible events that followed Herman Billik’s conviction: last second reprieves; legal battles carried all the way to the Supreme Court; frenzied mass demonstrations; corpses secretly exhumed in the middle of the night; and the revelation that key witnesses lied under oath. The case affected political campaigns, involved a Chicago Mayor, and featured an eventual showdown in the race for Governor of Illinois between two of the story’s central figures. Indeed, if it were not true, no one would ever believe it.