Bøger af Alexander Zaitchik

Praise for Out of the Ooze: The Story of Dr. Thomas Price "Donald Trump is the sick showman of Washington scandal, but the meat and potatoes of personal and corporate thievery goes to Thomas Price, secretary of HHS, who has created a profit center of illness and suffering." - Willam Greider, The Nation The U.S. healthcare system is the outlier of the developed world: immoral, inefficient, expensive, and corrupt as hell. This system has survived into the present day thanks in large part to a century of organized medical-industry reaction epitomized by Dr. Tom Price, the surgeon-businessman-politician presently serving Donald Trump as the secretary of Health and Human Services. The story of this man's rise out of Atlanta's suburbs - a rise built on far-right ideology and market fundamentalism, rank greed and breathtaking cruelty - is also the story, and the ultimate condemnation, of our nation's larger failure to provide healthcare as a right to all Americans. In Out of the Ooze, journalist Alexander Zaitchik (author of Common Nonsense and The Gilded Rage) sketches the arc of Price's career, from his days as a young flack for the American Medical Association barnstorming Georgia in opposition to the Clinton reform push of 1993; to his years on the Ways and Means Committee, when he brazenly traded $300,000 worth of healthcare-related stocks while lobbying on behalf of those same companies; to his current position at the apex of healthcare policy and GOP strategy to roll back the moderate reforms of the previous administration. The result is a taut argument for both the criminal investigation of Tom Price and a radical overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system he now oversees.

Praise for Alexander Zaitchik's reporting on the Glenn Beck phenomenon"Alexander Zaitchik has been doing yeoman's work of late, digging deep into the oftentimes disturbing past of the new face and voice of the angry right, Fox News's Glenn Beck."--Simon Maloy, Media Matters for America"A must-read. . . . Heaven help us all." --Michael Tomasky, The Guardian"Superb." --Glenn Greenwald, Salon"I highly recommend Alexander Zaitchik's feature [on Beck.] In it, he profiles not just Beck and his band of aggrieved, paranoid disciples, but the man who inspired him, W. Cleon Skousen."--Sarah Posner, The American Prospect"Fascinating." --Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic "Probably the most comprehensive take in terms of backstory that I've seen on the conservative talk star."--Michael Calderone, Politico"Horrifying. . . . Chillingly informative."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times"Fascinating." --Joe Conason, The New York Observer"Edifying." --Todd Gitlin, Talking Points Memo"Terrific. . . . If you're looking for an antidote to the Beck dreck that Time magazine recently passed off as journalism, this is it."--Kevin Drum, Mother Jones"Despicable, yellow journalism." --Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel