Uncle Sam's Buddies (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Jay Levine | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Welcome to the federal hearing room where justice meets absurdity.

Judge James Prosser has spent more than twenty-five years presiding over Social Security disability hearings in the belly of the D.C. bureaucracy. He's seen it all: thousands of pages of unreadable medical files, claimants who can't take the oath, rookie attorneys who say "butthole" on the record, and a system so tangled in its own policies that no one, not the judges, not the lawyers, not the politicians funding or defunding it, can tell where good intentions end and pure chaos begins.

In Uncle Sam's Buddies, the courtroom is just the starting point. Behind the hearings lies a much bigger fight: gazillionaire donors pulling the strings of compliant politicians, "deep state" bureaucrats enforcing rules they barely understand, and ordinary Americans caught in the crossfire, some genuinely desperate, some working every angle the system will allow. From the halls of the Social Security Administration to the corridors of political power, no one escapes scrutiny and no one keeps a straight face for long.

Part biting satire, part insider expose, and part laugh-out-loud comedy, this novel takes aim at the left, the right, the rich, the broke, and everyone in between. If you think the American political system can't get any more ridiculous, you haven't read this book yet. Who's really getting played, and who's doing the playing?