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How the U.S. Government Segregated America

Peter C. Baker Pacific Standard
This book is an updated telling of the history of the federal government's role in creating our nation's racially segregated neighborhoods and all-white suburbs.

All the Presidents’ Bankers: Nomi Prins on the Secret History of Washington-Wall Street Collusion

Aaron Mate, Amy Goodwin, Nomi Prins Democracy Now
In her new book, All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power, Nomi Prins traces the hundred-year history of collusion between Washington and Wall Street. Prins reveals how a small number of bankers have played critical roles in shaping a century’s worth of financial, foreign and domestic policy in the United States including the Federal Reserve, the response to the Great Depression, and the founding of the IMF and the World Bank.
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