Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I: The Truman Years
2. Organized Crime and Corruption in the Truman Administration
3. Anti-Communism: Mobsters, the FBI, the China Lobby
Part II: From Ike to LBJ
4. The Dominican Connection: Dictators, Mobsters, and Caribbean Intrigues
5. The Friends of LBJ – I: Bobby Baker and the Mob
6. The Friends of LBJ – II: The Murchisons
7. Henry Crown, the Chicago Outfit, and the TFX Scandal
Part III: Richard Nixon
8. Nixon’s Caribbean Milieu, 1950-1968
9. In the White House: Nixon and the Mob, 1969-1974
10. Nixon, Howard Hughes, the CIA, and the Mob: The Road to Watergate
Part IV: Conclusion
11. From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump
Bibliography
Notes
Jonathan Marshall is an independent journalist who has published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, National Review, California Lawyer, California Journal, American Enterprise, Stanford Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sacramento Bee, Pacific News Service, HuffingtonPost, and ConsortiumNews.com. He has been the economics editor and technology reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, editorial page editor, Oakland Tribune, editorial writer, San Jose Mercury News, associate editor, Inquiry magazine, and a project member, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He lives in San Anselmo, California.
A deeply troubling history of corruption in the United States, from
Truman's presidency to Trump's. Marshall charts the 'swamp' that
Trump fatuously claimed he would drain, exposes the fetid reality,
and warns that it is a cancer in the heart of democracy.--Anthony
Summers, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, 2012
A unique blend of magma-deep research, dramatic revelations, and
judicious conclusions. Marshall tells some frequently gobsmacking
tales while steadily keeping his eye on the larger historical
context. Readers will come away with an enlarged sense of the
meaning and methods of corruption--and with a fresh perspective on
what makes modern America tick.--David M. Kennedy, emeritus,
Stanford University, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom
from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Corruption in government has been a problem for as long as there
have been governments. Here, journalist and historian Marshall
takes a look at the problem as it applies to modern American
government. Few will doubt the premise that corruption has always
been a factor in American politics to some extent, but the
assumption has also been that it has been kept (somewhat) in check
by the assiduous effort of American law enforcement. Marshall's
historical examination reveals that, since the mid-twentieth
century, political corruption has been widespread thanks to the
efforts of organized crime and the largesse of big business. The
influence of organized crime has been largely staunched, but, in
recent decades, changes in laws have allowed the proliferation of
corrupt cash in American government, threatening the function of
modern democracy--as readers who followed the news during recent
elections have seen. Marshall's detailed analysis paints a
distressing picture, but hopefully also provides a useful roadmap
to the idealized future envisioned by reformers seeking to
genuinely drain the swamp.-- "Booklist"
For those who wish to gain an intimate knowledge of the nexus among
organized crime, business, and politics, Dark Quadrant is a
fascinating and jolting journey into the abyss. There is something
for everyone--the organized crime buff, the political scientist,
and most certainly, the historian who often gives short shrift to
the invisible hand. Simply put, money now and forever has and will
rule American politics. The evidence marshalled here proves the
case beyond any doubt.-- "Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Books"
Investigative journalist Jonathan Marshall's Dark Quadrant:
Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American
Democracy might be the first serious examination of the influence
of moneyed interests on our elections and on public policy. . . .
Marshall's unsparing history begins with Harry Truman and works its
sobering way to our own time.-- "Public Affairs Council"
Jonathan Marshall, a courageous and respected investigative
historian, explores our country's corruption in the latter part of
the twentieth century. He then documents how corruption became more
sophisticated in the twenty-first century and, via the rise of the
corrupt and dishonest Donald Trump, jeopardized America's basic
institutions, as well as our fundamental rights and freedoms. . . .
Marshall has given America a wake-up call.--Dan E. Moldea, author
of The Hoffa Wars
Jonathan Marshall's new book . . . effectively challenges this
narrative [of a golden age of U.S. democracy] and the myth of the
'greatest generation.' The book details the largely neglected story
of how well-protected criminals organized the corruption of U.S.
politics and business at a national level after World War II. . . .
The presidents featured in Dark Quadrant . . . ultimately governed
in the interests of their corporate and mob-linked donors, betrayed
democratic values, and corroded the nation's moral fabric. With a
new Cold War heating up, U.S. leaders now strive to present U.S.
global leadership as necessary to save the world from Russian and
Chinese autocracy. Marshall's study reminds us, however, that the
United States evolved after World War II as a corrupted
dollarocracy. Its rhetoric about promoting democracy around the
world as such rings hollow.-- "Covertaction"
Jonathan Marshall's newest couldn't be more timely. As America
struggles to hold together its fragile democracy, many wonder how
this could be happening. Marshall skillfully reminds us that we
should have seen it all coming, showing how we have ignored the
'dark quadrant' of systemic political corruption for far too long.
Everyone must read the deeply researched, sobering Dark Quadrant
and decide for themselves if it's finally time to get serious about
corruption in America.--Gus Russo, author of Supermob and The
Outfit
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