| ISBN | 9780674659988 |
| Call Number | JK2249 .T42 2016 |
| Author | Teachout, Zephyr. |
| Title | Corruption in America : from Benjamin Franklin's snuff box to Citizens United / Zephyr Teachout. |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016. |
| Physical | viii, 376 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-350) and index. |
| Content | 1. Four snuff boxes and a horse -- 2. Changing the frame -- 3. Removing temptations -- 4. Yazoo -- 5. Is bribery without a remedy ? -- 6. Railroad ties -- 7. The forgotten law of lobbying -- 8. The gilded age -- 9. Two kinds of sticks -- 10. The jury decides -- 11. Operation gemstone -- 12. A west virginia state of Mind -- 13. Citizens United -- 14. The new snuff boxes -- 15. Facts in exile, complacency, and disdain -- 16. The anticorruption principle -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Anticorruption constitutional provisions -- Appendix 2: Major Nineteenth - Twentieth-Century anticorruption laws. |
| Subject | Political corruption -- United States -- History. |
| | Judicial corruption -- United States -- History. |
| | Political culture -- United States. (9) |
| | United States -- Politics and government -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| Holding | LIC |
