Julie Watson’s Reviews > Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World > Status Update

pg 101 - "KGB leadership made it clear that any candidate, of either party, would be preferable to Reagan." Never in my life did I think I would agree with the KGB on something, but here we are, and I hate it

I can already tell this is gonna be one of those nonfiction booms I start regurgitating randomly in any conversation where it's relevant. Only on page 46 and we've already got the US purchase of Alaska, the National Guard massacring civilians, the Rockefellars, Belgium's genocide in the Congo, and the Nazis. It's a who's who of major political events of the 19th & 20th century and one thing links them all: lobbying.