All the Presidents Bankers, Nomi Prins
All the Presidents Bankers, Nomi Prins
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All the Presidents' Bankers
The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power

Author: Nomi Prins

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 19 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/11/2014


Synopsis

Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents’ Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics—or greed driving bankers.

Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people.

This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how financiers have retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. It explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves us with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.


About Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins is a renowned author, journalist, and speaker. She is the author of Black Tuesday, It Takes a Pillage, Jacked, and Other People's Money, which predicted the current financial crisis and was chosen as a Best Book by the Economist, Barron's, and the Library Journal. Nomi has been a featured commentator on numerous national and international TV programs, including for CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CSPAN, Fox, and PBS. She has been featured on hundreds of radio shows globally, as well, including for CNNRadio, Marketplace, NPR, BBC, and Canadian Programming. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, Newsday, Newsweek, the Guardian UK, and other publications.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on October 25, 2017

On the evening of October 24, 2017 the Senate passed a bill, with Vice President Pence breaking the 50-50 tie, to limit the right of citizens to enter in class action lawsuits against banks and credit card providers. Instead people who felt they were cheated by big financial institutions could only......more

Goodreads review by Public on May 16, 2022

This book would make a nice companion to C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite. There are lots of fantastical ideas out there about the Illuminati or some other secret cabal running the world. The truth is that class interests run things openly and it's on the historical record. This sad truth is much l......more

Goodreads review by Clif on June 08, 2015

I was going to give this book only four stars because the first part is slow going. Then I realized that is only because that part relates to the early years of the 20th century before I was born. It cannot have the same impact as the later pages that tell of the times with which I am familiar. But t......more