Books written by David Cay Johnston
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how today's government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of the wealthy few.
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The Making of Donald Trump
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist draws from nearly thirty years of reporting on Donald Trump to trace the mogul's career in real estate and ascent to the top of the 2016 Republican presidential ticket.
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Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else
This explosive book, by an award-winning investigative reporter, reveals exactly how the tax code and many other laws have been twisted over the past three decades to subsidize the richest and most powerful fraction of 1 percent of our ...
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America
This is “a momentously thorough account of President Trump’s alarmingly chaotic first year in office…a precise and fiery indictment of an unstable, unethical president that concludes with a call for us to defend our democracy” ...
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The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
... Christian Day and Terry L. Turnipseed, professors David Driesen and Rob Nassau and my research assistants since 2009, Megan E. Dodge, Jacqueline S. Lawrence, Jessalyn M. Mastrianni, Fred Pugliese, Kenneth R. Williams and ...
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Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat E verybody Else
Irwin Schiff, a convicted tax felon and author of The Federal Mafia, sells another tax scam that grew because of IRS inaction. Schiff, who has been sent to prison twice for tax crimes, was on hard times in 1995.
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and StickYou with the Bill)
Identifies inequalities in America's tax system that are placing a large percentage of citizens in financial peril in spite of a strong U.S. economy, sharing information on how the government offers favorable treatment to corporations and ...
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The Making of Donald Trump
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER that first revealed the Russia connection The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, this in-depth report by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a ...
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The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.
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The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind
A bestselling author’s shocking analysis of the many ways we are victimized by corporations David Cay Johnston, the bestselling author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch, is famous for exposing the perfidies of our biggest institutions.
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The Making of Donald Trump
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has covered Donald Trump's rise to power for 30 years, mostly for the New York Times, investigates the mogul's rise to power.
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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America
This is “a momentously thorough account of President Trump’s alarmingly chaotic first year in office…a precise and fiery indictment of an unstable, unethical president that concludes with a call for us to defend our democracy” ...
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The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
Original lie -- Jobs mirage -- Charity doghouse -- Off the books -- Collecting tribute -- Don't ask, don't know -- Conflicts of interest -- Tax scam -- Polishing apple -- The Koch papers -- Wall scam -- Opportunity knocks -- Dangerous ...
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Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of ...