American Grift

Book Three of the American series is the ledger. Henry Goodstone documents the transactional turn as a working system, the honor system abandoned, the government hollowed, the press flinching, and public office run as a price list. From the loyalty tests and the get out of jail economy to the people who paid for it, the book itemizes what was taken and by whom. It is corruption normalized and counted, told as the looting of a republic whose forms are kept as theater.