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The Chelsea Series

Resnek J: The Last Four Mayors Took down
a City

The Last Four Mayors Took down a City

Chelsea, Massachusetts holds a unique American distinction: four consecutive mayors-Joel Pressman, James Mitchell, Thomas Nolan, and John Brennan-were brought to justice for leading a city into the ground. Only Newark and Atlantic City compare in municipal misconduct. In The Last Four Mayors, the fourth volume of The Chelsea Series, writer Josh Resnek and documentary photographer Arnie Jarmak revisit this sordid era. They detail how these leaders broke their promises, enriched themselves with bribes, and brought the city to bankruptcy. The corruption grew so severe that public servants went unpaid, forcing the state of Massachusetts to suspend local government and take over receivership. Through stunning black and white photographs and firsthand narrative, Resnek and Jarmak offer an honest testimony of a compromised era and the results of the FBI investigation that brought it to a crashing halt.

Elements in Chinese Economy and Governance

While bribery has been extensively studied, the dynamics of personnel corruption in the public sector, often known as 'buying and selling of government offices,' remain underexplored. This form of corruption involves leaders' accepting or soliciting bribes from subordinates to influence recruitment, appointment, and promotion decisions, significantly impacting political selection and governance quality. This Element employs a dual perspective - corruption and elite mobility - to analyze the distribution of office-selling across the Chinese administrative matrix and its various forms and implications. Using two novel self-compiled datasets, it proposes a tripartite framework of performance, patronage, and purchase to reimagine political selection in China, highlighting the coexistence of multiple governance models: a meritocratic state prioritizing competence, a clientelist state emphasizing loyalty, and an investment state bound by money. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Political Selection in China Beyond Performance and Patronage

Bribery as a Third Path to Power?

'Meticulous and devastating... Read this book to learn the truth about the game you love' Oliver Bullough, author of MoneylandA cheeky flutter. All part of the game. Get closer to the action. A friendly, familiar voice, inviting you to join the real fans and get involved. What harm could it do...It has never been easier to stake a bet. Wall to wall adverts have hijacked every sporting event - the mobile slot machine in your pocket all you need to enter an immersive world in which gambling is faceless and frictionless, available 24/7, on almost any aspect of any sport.Since its origins as a provincial cottage industry almost twenty-five years ago, online gambling has become a globe-straddling behemoth worth more than £10 billion a year. It can sometimes feel as if the point of sport is to bet on it.How did we get here? How did a new wave of gambling brands hijack sport on a global scale? In Imitation Games, Darragh McGee travels the world to tell the incredible story of the digital brands who unleashed this new world of gambling onto a new generation of fans (and got very rich doing so).At the same time, he traces the harm and human cost that gambling leaves behind, and shows how we can create a different future for sport and society. Because when the fun stops, it stops hard.'McGee takes readers on a gripping journey' Natasha Schüll, author of Addiction by Design

How Gambling Hijacked Sport

Imitation Games

Gone Rogue is a riveting narrative that unravels a web of financial fraud, political manipulation, and personal sacrifice. Written by Michael Arnold, this compelling nonfiction work blends real-life events with dramatic storytelling to explore the high stakes of integrity, accountability, and the price of exposing corruption.

The story follows Marcus, a former compliance professional in the global financial sector, who seeks a quieter life in a picturesque coastal town. However, his peaceful new beginning is soon disrupted when he uncovers a complex scheme of investor fraud tied to municipal bonds. As he delves deeper into the city's financial dealings, Marcus finds himself facing an entrenched system of corruption that threatens to unravel everything he holds dear.

From the moment Marcus begins questioning the legitimacy of the city's financial transactions, he is drawn into a world of deceit and danger. As a whistleblower, Marcus takes on powerful individuals with deep political ties, navigating a series of moral and professional dilemmas that force him to confront the limits of his own integrity.

Gone Rogue is more than a story of financial fraud it's a tale of a man forced to choose between personal safety and moral duty, between silence and speaking out. As Marcus exposes the depth of corruption, he must contend with retaliation, threats, and the personal toll of standing up for what's right. With every discovery, the stakes grow higher, and Marcus realizes that the forces he's up against are far more powerful and far-reaching than he ever imagined.

A must-read for anyone interested in financial crime, whistle blowing, and the inner workings of political and corporate corruption, Gone Rogue is a masterclass in the delicate balance between personal integrity and the dangerous pursuit of truth. This book is essential for readers who appreciate real-world thrillers, true crime, and the relentless pursuit of justice in a world that often bends to the will of the powerful.

Gone Rogue

How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

2024

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics. Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised country for several tumultuous generations.The Rage of Party traces the thrilling story of how these two parties - one representing the established social forces of squire, church and monarchy; the other the rising forces of financial power and Protestant Dissent - settled the defining debates of the age, culminating in a dramatic fight to the death over peace, piety and the Protestant Succession in the age of Queen Anne. Their bitter disputes over religion, economics and the constitution profoundly influenced many of the forces and institutions that shaped the modern world, ranging from the City of London and the Bank of England to the Union between England and Scotland and the British Empire.From vicious pamphlet wars and some of history's most corrupt and riotous elections through a revolution, multiple assassination attempts and enough scandals to make even the most louche modern politician blush, this brilliantly researched book shows how a motley crew of rakes, hypocrites, cunning tricksters and scheming clergymen engaged in not only a political confrontation that threatened a second civil war, but a culture war that still finds echoes in 21st-century Britain.'This is a lucid and exciting account of high and low politics in the crucial years of Whig and Tory battles following the Glorious Revolution, when Great Britain was created, and a new world of money, war and empire dawned. George Owers grippingly recounts the culture wars, paranoia, self-seeking and skulduggery that are "both recognisable and strange". Recognizable because "we are all still, in our heart of hearts, either Whig or Tory", and we are still grappling with their legacy' - Robert Tombs, author of The English and their History 'This book is a delight. Written with vivacity and veracity it sheds light on the miracle of English party politics' - Maurice Glasman 'We tend to think of our current age as uniquely fractious but as George Owers shows in his engrossing new book, it is a kindergarten compared to the "Rage of Party'' this country experienced in the late seventeen and early eighteenth centuries. The story he tells so vividly has it all: political divisions, religious strife, immigration controversies, fake news, arguments over foreign policy, Anglo-Scottish tensions - polarisation all round!' - Brendan Simms, author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present 'A highly readable account of the beginnings of the party system in Britain, with insights that are relevant for understanding of politics in any era. George Owers's vivid recreation of the conflict of Whigs and Tories illuminates what was a crucial period in the rise of Britain as a major European and global power' - David Hayton, editor of The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1690-1715 'Today's party politics absorbs us. When did British party politics begin and how? George Owers's book provides a compelling analysis, brilliantly interweaving vivid vignettes into a masterly narrative' - Mark Goldie, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Cambridge

The Rage of Party

Anjan Sundaram travelled to Rwanda in 2009 to train journalists but it was soon impossible to ignore the reality of living in a corrupt and censorious regime. Tracing a band of reporters, at home and in exile, committed to exposing the injustices of Kagame's government, this is thrilling, vital and revelatory reportage.

Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

Bad News

An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places

Gaza's Gravediggers

The Shattering of Elon Musk

Hubris Maximus

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more. 'Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it's the one about him' - Marina Hyde 'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' - Financial Times 'A Bridget Jones's Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' - The Times 'You have to read it' - Caitlin Moran Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her. Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams' account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley's ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook's aggressive pursuit of global dominance. Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives - and the unchecked power of those who control it. With a new foreword for paperback from Naomi Alderman. 'Urgently necessary reading' - Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic 'How else to put this? Bloody hell' - The Guardian Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year 2026 Winner for the British Book Awards, Freedom to Publish Award 2026 Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025 Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026 Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025 Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook

A story of where I used to work

Careless People

**The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar, now available in paperback with a brand new afterword** 'One of the boldest and most exciting thinkers of her generation' NAOMI KLEIN 'Delivers its message with punch and panache ... a joy to read' GUARDIAN 'If leftists feel they have been stumbling around in the darkness, Minority Rule flicks on the light' STANDARD Minority rule (noun): an irrational fear fuelled by right-wing pundits, lobby journalists and billionaires that minority groups are displacing majority populations. We all know that the modern world is in crisis. But it's not just a crisis for the climate, or of living standards - it's a 'blame crisis'. Whether it's infighting on the left or the demonisation of immigrants on the right, there's always a new talking point to distract us from real, systemic change. Now is the time to realise that we have been duped into fighting with each other; now is the time to redirect our outrage towards those who deserve it. In Minority Rule, political commentator Ash Sarkar offers a sharp and lively reality check. Whether it's exposing the origins of the 'white working class', or examining how 'non-events' have taken over journalism, this book - now with a brand new afterword - will help you break the blame cycle for good.

Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller

Minority Rule

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year “A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. As his wealthy father’s chosen successor, Trump received the equivalent today of more than $500 million in family money. He collected a second windfall thanks to Mark Burnett, the revolutionary television producer who made Trump a star. In truth, Trump's empire was underwritten, and at times saved, by the equivalent of more than $1 billion that came his way without any of the business expertise he claimed. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. Here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money–what he had, what he lost, and what he has left–and the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.

How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Lucky Loser

The new book from the acclaimed author of Number Go Up.

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