Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World by Michel, Casey

Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

A stunning investigation and indictment of a segment of the United States' foreign lobbying industry, and the...
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Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World by Michel, Casey

Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

$67.95

Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

$67.95
Author: Casey Michel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A stunning investigation and indictment of a segment of the United States' foreign lobbying industry, and the threat to end democracy.

For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but they've secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself.

These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous, repressive regimes in the process. These foreign lobbyists include figures like Ivy Lee, the inventor of the public relations industry--a man who whitewashed Mussolini, opened doors to the Soviets, and advised the Nazis on how to sway American audiences. They include people like Paul Manafort, who invented lobbying as we know it--and who then took his talents to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines, and then back to the White House. And they now include an increasing number of Americans elsewhere: in law firms and consultancies, among PR specialists and former lawmakers, and even within think tanks and universities.

In Foreign Agents, Casey Michel shines a light on these foreign lobbyists as some of them--after decades of installing dictators and corrupting American policy--embark on their next mission: to end America's democratic experiment, once and for all.

Author: Casey Michel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250286055

About the Author
Casey Michel is an author, journalist, and director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program with the Human Rights Foundation. He is the author of American Kleptocracy, named by The Economist as one of the "best books to read to understand financial crime." His writing on offshoring, foreign lobbying, authoritarianism, and illicit wealth has appeared in Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Post, among other outlets, and he has appeared on NPR, BBC, CNN, and MSNBC, among other stations. He has also testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the links between illicit financial networks and national security. He received his Master's degree in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Columbia University's Harriman Institute, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in northern Kazakhstan. Foreign Agents is his second book.

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