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.

Out of the Ooze: The Story of Dr. Tom Price

Biographies & Memoirs

Zaitchik, Alexander

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has done little to draw attention to herself, but has nevertheless managed to become the most reviled member of Donald Trump’s cabinet. DeVos, the sister of mercenary magnate Erik Prince, is a thicket of contradictions: as a person, she is roundly described as unassuming and kind to those around her. Born into extraordinary wealth, and married into an Amway fortune, she has devoted much of her life to a project that has left public schools wrecked in her wake. It is her life’s passion, yet she is broadly unfamiliar with even the most elementary aspects of education policy. How that inexplicable combination – voracious ideological fervor blended with extreme ignorance – will shape the future of schooling in the United States is just one of the intrigues probed by this timely and incisive exposé. Schoolhouse Wreck wouldn't have been possible without the support of the folks below who wanted to expose the truth. Find out more about our crowdpublishing at StrongArmPress.com Heidi Frey Greenwald Allan Fix Pamela Stanley Brian Williams Gay Charlton Wayne Pearce Jackie B. Duncan Zak Linkins Rhonda Weingarten Mark Hurst Margery Johnson Karen Wehrman Ruth A. Harnisch Edward Baumgartner Terry Maddox Allan Greenleaf Ray Bellamy Rick Potthoff Harold Hill Gerald Donnelly Preston Maddock Anne Summers Dan J. Finkle Carole Miller Richard Behan Wendy Kornreich Nancy Freedman Val Zampedro Jerry Rubin Karen Reibstein Beverly Hahn Laurie Zelesnikar Rick Hamrick Lois Martin Keith Chapman Jennifer Walker Gates Cindy Jackson Andrew Goldman Gary Milgrom Rudolf Heller Mark Hurst John Bodley M Duane Rutledge Greg Simmons David Bryan Ursel Schlicht Michelle Tenam-Zemach Nathan Rothstein Janet Kane Scapin John Edwards Laraine Flemming Topper Sherwood Donna Middlehurst Phyllis Wahlberg Janice Burns Nicolette Stock Amy Abbott Richard Cox Steve Griffith Dan Fast Gerald Hunt James Colbert Christopher Barrow June Thaden Michael Thuot Clivefield Fenton Philip Farrocco David Dexter Bedene Greenspan Richrd Kleinknecht Julian Blair Kent Borges Olga Yazlovitsky Amien Essif Peter Andrew Hart Michael Lewis

Schoolhouse Wreck: The Betsy DeVos Story

Politics & Social Sciences

Linkins, Jason

Lewis, Phil

Politics & Government

How To Think Like A Patriotic Millionaire: Taxes

Pearl, Morris

Quigley, Sam

Teninbaum, Julie

Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works and renowned Social Security expert, brings us her third book, in which she uses the founders' own words to debunk myths and reveal the truth about the most popular and successful government program in our nation's history.

The Truth About Social Security: The Founders’ Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings

Altman, Nancy J.

Having spent a lifetime fighting the good fight in the trenches of the progressive movement and Democratic Party, Mike Lux has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of politics up close and personal. From the glorious victories to the staggering defeats to the persistent stagnation of never getting shit done, Lux analyzes what has been going wrong for Democrats in the last decade and offers a blueprint for how to start winning again - not just this year, but for generations to come. Lux looks at how the party managed to turn off both base and swing voters in the years following Obama’s historic victory, culminating in its loss. He writes about the false choices – focus on swing vs. base voters, fairness vs. growth in the economy, urban vs. rural outreach - that have hurt Democratic chances. He stresses how Democrats must distinguish themselves from Republicans on the critical American ideal of freedom. A progressive populist before it was cool, but with an aversion to blindly following anyone’s dogmatic approach, Lux lays out a strategy and message for winning a long-term Democratic governing majority.

How To Democrat In the Age Of Trump

Lux, Mike

The Truth About Social Security: The Founders' Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings

Having spent a lifetime fighting the good fight in the trenches of the progressive movement and Democratic Party, Mike Lux has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of politics up close and personal. From the glorious victories to the staggering defeats to the persistent stagnation of never getting shit done, Lux analyzes what has been going wrong for Democrats in the last decade and offers a blueprint for how to start winning again - not just this year, but for generations to come. Lux looks at how the party managed to turn off both base and swing voters in the years following Obama's historic victory, culminating in its loss. He writes about the false choices - focus on swing vs. base voters, fairness vs. growth in the economy, urban vs. rural outreach - that have hurt Democratic chances. He stresses how Democrats must distinguish themselves from Republicans on the critical American ideal of freedom. A progressive populist before it was cool, but with an aversion to blindly following anyone's dogmatic approach, Lux lays out a strategy and message for winning a long-term Democratic governing majority.

How to Democrat in the Age of Trump

Mike, Lux

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story tells the true story of how Steve Mnuchin has spent a career profiting from the pain and suffering of ordinary Americans. Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin story is authored by two extraordinary journalists, Rebecca Burns and David Dayen. From Mnuchin's beginnings at Goldman to his time as a Hollywood Producer, and from his coronation as America's "Foreclosure King" to his narrow confirmation to become Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Burns and Dayen show how Mnuchin has made a career - and a fortune - by bilking average American families.

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story

Burns, Rebecca

Dayen, David

Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story tells the true story of how Donald Trump's treasury secretary has spent a career profiting from the pain and suffering of ordinary Americans.Fat Cat is authored by two extraordinary journalists, Rebecca Burns and David Dayen. From Mnuchin’s beginnings at Goldman to his time as a Hollywood Producer, and from his coronation as America’s “Foreclosure King” to his narrow confirmation to Trump’s cabinet, Burns and Dayen show how Mnuchin has made a career – and a fortune – by bilking average American families.

Business & Money

Economics

In "Big Pharma, Big Greed: The inside story of one lawyer's battle to stem the flood of dangerous medicines and protect public health", Stephen Sheller tells a tale that is at once deeply personal but also with wide repercussions for the U.S. health care system and the hundreds of millions of Americans whose lives literally depend on it. In the book, Sheller not only recounts his major litigation battles but also makes sweeping proposals for industry reform. To restore regulatory credibility, Sheller proposes that responsibility for testing new medicines be taken away from the industry and given over to hospitals and other public entities partnering with government regulators. Pharmaceutical companies that betray the public trust would risk government- initiated dissolution. Harsh medicine to be sure, but Sheller believes entirely appropriate to the underlying malady.

Big Pharma, Big Greed: The inside story of one lawyer’s battle to stem the flood of dangerous medicines and protect public health

KIRKPATRICK, SIDNEY

Sheller, Stephen

Mondics, Christopher

True Crime

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