Dark Quadrant

Jonathan Marshall is a courageous and respected investigative historian who explores America's dark recent past, admonishes us for our witting sins and unwitting mistakes, and then shows us paths into the future, hoping to avoid recurrences. In Dark Quadrant, Marshall remains faithful to that purpose, exploring our country's corruption in the latter part of the twentieth century and how it was addressed and often resolved by anti-crime forces. Marshall then demonstrates and documents how corruption became more sophisticated in the twenty-first century and, via the rise of the provably corrupt and dishonest Donald Trump, jeopardized America's basic institutions, as well as our fundamental rights and freedoms. . . . Marshall has given America a wake-up call.--Dan E. Moldea, author of The Hoffa Wars Jonathan Marshall's newest couldn't be more timely. As America struggles to hold together its fragile democracy while a wanton, thoroughly corrupted Republican party treats it like a cheap pinata, many wonder how this could be happening. Marshall skillfully reminds us that we should have seen it all coming, showing how we have ignored the 'dark quadrant' of systemic political corruption for far too long. Now America must withstand withering assaults on two fronts--Covid-19 from within and Trumpism-20 from without. I have more faith that Covid will be defeated than I do the perennial infection in the body politic. veryone must read the deeply researched, sobering Dark Quadrant and decide for themselves if it's time to get serious about corruption in America. Finally.--Gus Russo, author of Supermob and The Outfit Dark Quadrant offers a unique blend of magma-deep research, dramatic revelations, and judicious conclusions. Jonathan Marshall manages to tell some frequently gob-smacking tales while steadily keeping his eye on the larger historical context. Readers will come away with an enlarged sense of the meaning and methods of corruption, and with a fresh perspective on what makes modern America tick.--David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929 -1945 Marshall has written a deeply troubling history of corruption in the United States, from Truman's presidency to Trump's. He charts the 'swamp' that Trump fatuously claimed he would drain, exposes the fetid reality, and warns that it is a cancer in the heart of democracy.--Anthony Summers, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, 2012