cam a22 5 4500 599496185 CHVBK 20200824032129.0 191230t20202020nyu b||| 001 0ceng|d 978-1-324-00187-4 hardcover 1-324-00187-9 hardcover (IDSBB)007214451 (OCoLC)1134392653 (OCoLC)1117313830 NjBwBT ger CGL OCLCQ OCLCO IEP JTH RB0 UAP JQM SINLB YDX BDX LMJ UAP VP@ OCLCF PSC GZM Z#6 rda E914.K87 B47 2020 973.933092/2 B 23 MG 70200 rvk American oligarchs the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power Andrea Bernstein First edition New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company [2020] ©2020 484 pages 25 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-468) and index Prologue: the wedding -- Introduction -- The escape -- The American dream -- Land of opportunity -- The fall of New York -- The business of Donald Trump -- The gamble -- The Don of suburbia -- Icarus -- "A bridge to the future" -- Escape from New Jersey -- Entrée -- A flood of money -- The initiation -- "To spend without limit" -- License -- Other people's money -- The merger -- The infomercial -- Big caviar -- Dirt -- Trump, Inc. -- "A terrible situation" -- American oligarchy -- Justice "A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, that stretches from the Klondike Gold Rush, through Nazi-occupied Poland and across the American Century, to our new gilded age. In building and maintaining their dynastic wealth, these families came to embody the rising nationalism and inequality that has pushed the United States to the brink of oligarchy. Building on her landmark reporting for the acclaimed podcast Trump, Inc.^ and The New Yorker, Bernstein's painstaking detective work brings to light new information about the families' arrival as immigrants to America, their paths to success, and the business and personal lives of the president and his closest family members. Bernstein traces how the two families ruthlessly harnessed New York and New Jersey machine politics to gain valuable tax breaks and grew rich on federal programs that bolstered the middle class. She shows how the Trump Organization, denied credit by American banks, turned to shady international capital. She reveals astonishing new details about Charles Kushner's attempts to ensnare his brother-in-law with a prostitute and explores how Jared Kushner and his father used a venerable New York newspaper to bolster their business empire.^ Drawing on more than two hundred interviews and more than one hundred thousand pages of documents, many previously unseen or long forgotten, Bernstein shows how the Trumps and the Kushners repeatedly broke rules and then leveraged secrecy, intimidation, and prosecutorial and judicial power to avoid legal consequences. The result is a compelling narrative that details how the Trump and Kushner dynasties encouraged and profited from a system of corruption, dark money, and influence trading, and that reveals the historical turning points and decisions--on taxation, regulation, white-collar crime, and campaign finance laws--that have brought us to where we are today."-- Trump, Donald 1946- Family Kushner, Jared 1981- Trump, Ivanka 1981- Trump, Donald 1946- fast Trump, Ivanka 1981- fast Trump, Donald 1946- (DE-588)118834312 gnd Presidents United States Family Businesspeople United States Biography Children of presidents United States Biography Presidents United States Staff Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State bisacsh HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct bisacsh Businesspeople fast Children of presidents fast Families fast Presidents Family fast Presidents Staff fast Presidents United States sears Businesspeople Biography sears Presidents United States Children Biography sears Presidents United States Staff Biography sears Oligarchie (DE-588)4172548-7 gnd Politik (DE-588)4046514-7 gnd New York (N.Y.) Biography New York (State) New York fast United States fast New York (N.Y.) Biography sears USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd Biographies fast Biographies lcgft Bernstein Andrea 1961- author BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 acq-record IDSBB B400 B400 400M BeM IDSBB 700 1- Bernstein Andrea 1961- author