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Book SynopsisDark Quadrant traces the systematic corruption of businesspeople and politicians from 1945 to 1974 and draws links to our current political crisis. Documenting the collaboration of Presidents Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters. President Trump represents, in many ways, a twisted culmination of the forces described in this book.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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