Books written by Sarah Chayes
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On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake
Justices Blackmun , Brennan , Marshall , Powell , Rehnquist , Scalia , and White in the majority , O'Connor and Stevens in the minority . † The court went on to find that even though Hunt and Gray had deceitfully " obtained money or ...
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
Apart from these advantages, which grew almost naturally out of the Mongols' native environment, Genghis Khan's genius added others. Like the leaders of the early Muslim Arabs six hundred years before, he had learned that tribalism ...
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
When, about six months later, in December 2003, I found myself sitting opposite another colonel, Richard Pedersen, in his office at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, I made this point explicitly. “I'm not sure this is what you signed up for ...
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On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake
From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of ...
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Everybody Knows: Corruption in America
Who pulls the strings in America?
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
In a riveting account that weaves history with fast-moving reportage and insider accounts from the Afghanistan war, Sarah Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption.
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. I can't imagine a more important book for our time. --Sebastian Junger
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Everybody Knows: Corruption in America
In this blistering book, Sarah Chayes shows that today's corruption - even the venality of the Trump administration - is part of global history, going back to the invention of money itself.
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
Presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country.
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
In a thrilling argument connecting the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Thieves of State presents a powerful new way to understand global extremism.