Bøger af David Cay Johnston

EN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Den 9. november 2016 vågnede verden op til nyheden om, at den kontroversielle ejendomsmatador og milliardær Donald Trump havde vundet det amerikanske præsidentvalg. Den Pulitzer-vindende journalist David Cay Johnston har igennem 30 år fulgt Trumps liv og karriere tættere end nogen anden. I denne afslørende og meget kritiske biografi giver han indblik i hele Trumps karriere og hans vej til verdens mest magtfulde embede. Vi får hele forhistorien om, hvordan familiens formue blev grundlagt og om hans opvækst i New York og hans tid på universitetet. Igennem hele sin karriere har han udvist en ubændig virkelyst, politisk snilde og en i særklasse god forståelse for, hvordan medierne fungerer – egenskaber han siden skulle få god brug af i sin tilsyneladende kaotiske kampagne for at blive den frie verdens nye leder. Men igennem årene har der været sat spørgsmålstegn ved hans forretningsmetoder og hans karriere har været fuld af juridiske slagsmål og medieskandaler. Bogen er baseret på interviews med nærtstående kilder, retsdokumenter og andet hidtil ukendt materiale. David Cay Johnston er undersøgende journalist og fik i 2001 Pulitzerprisen. Var i en årrække ansat ved New York Times og er forfatter til flere bøger. Skiver i dag for Daily Beast og USA Today og underviser på Syracuse University College of Law.

Now updated with a new prologue! Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are remarkable: today someone who earns a yearly salary of $60,000 pays a larger percentage of his income in taxes than the four hundred richest Americans.Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening wealth gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind: • "Middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit. • How workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions. • How some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax. • How a law meant to prevent cheating by the top 2 percent of Americans no longer affects most of them, but has morphed into a stealth tax on single mothers making just $28,000. • Why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else. • How the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them.Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for seven years. With Perfectly Legal, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country.

Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.

"Longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on [what he sees as] the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more"--Dust jacket flap.