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Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Introduction “The Violence of Faction”

Understanding Political Corruption

1 “The Great Desideratum”

Madison, Hamilton, and the First Bank of the United States

2 “The Spirit of the Nation Forbids It”

Nationalism and Corruption from Jefferson to Jackson

3 “The General Scramble for Plunder”

Patronage in Jacksonian America

4 “Permanent and Terrible Mischief”

Machine Politics in the Gilded Age

5 “The King of Frauds”

Business and Politics in the Gilded Age

6 “To Dissolve the Unholy Alliance”

The Progressive Response to Corruption

7 “A Grand Political Racket”

Corruption in the New Deal

8 “Clear it with Sidney”

Modern Liberalism and the Interest Group Society

9 “A Grab Bag of Subsidies”

The Politics of American Agriculture

10 “The Parochial Imperative”

The Politics of the Pork Barrel

11 “A Big, Dumb Price Fixer”

Medicare and the Politics of Entitlements

12 “A Robbery of the Great Majority”

The Politics of Corporate Taxation

13 “The Pretorian Band”

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Politics of Regulatory Capture

Conclusion: A Republic No More

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index