Joe Conason

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The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right’s moral decay.

The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But long before he appeared, Trump’s path to power was blazed by the motley horde of swindlers and quacks who preceded him.

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Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton

Veteran political journalist Joe Conason brings you along with Bill Clinton, as the forty-second president blazes new paths in his post-presidential career. It is unlike the second career of any other president: “Bill Clinton” is a global brand, rising from the dark days of his White House departure to become one of the most popular names in the world. Man of the World tells the engrossing story of an extraordinary man who is still seeking to do good in the world.

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The Hunting of Hillary

Learn the true history of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” against the Clintons. In this free e-book, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons pull from the pages of The Hunting of the President with a focus on Hillary Clinton and the efforts by media outlets, the independent counsel, and Republicans in Congress to ruin her and even indict her.

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It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush

For the first time since the Nixon era, Americans have reason to doubt the future of democracy. Today, to an unprecedented degree, big government conspires with big business and big evangelism, while civil liberties are diminished and war is promoted by taxpayer-funded ideologues, raving pundits, and religious zealots. Could we be headed toward an age of authoritarianism?

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The Raw Deal:How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal

The Raw Deal explores the Right’s privatization goals, Bush’s hard-fought privatization campaign, the corporate interests behind the plan, the media campaign to undermine confidence in Social Security, and how the swindle can be stopped. Conason’s no-apologies, no-nonsense approach clears up the myriad misperceptions surrounding this important, confusing issue and gets to the truth about the big Social Security bluff.

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Big Lies

Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth

In Big Lies, Joe Conason rips through the ten most damaging lies perpetrated by the right wing propaganda machine. This scathing, fact-filled analysis debunks it all. Big Lies confronts right-wing slander and bias with a long-awaited, badly-needed counterpunch to the deceptions that have plagued American politics for a generation.

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Hunting of the President

The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton

In vivid prose, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons discuss how and why Clinton’s foes launched a cascade of well-financed attacks that undermined American democracy and nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency. In The Hunting of the President, Conason and Lyons identify the antagonists, reveal their tactics, trace the millions of dollars that subsidised them, and examine how and why mainstream news organizations aided those who were determined to bring down Bill Clinton.

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