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An staggering examination of how America's wealthiest infiltrated the government and allied with dictators, transforming the U.S. from democracy to oligarchy.

From the Rockefellers to the Vanderbilts, the world's richest families have for many years found in the United States an ideal home to grow their fortunes. For centuries, they have served as capitalistic success stories who owed their wealth to democratic protections and free markets. Now, though, that balance has shifted. Rather than the moguls and magnates of previous generations, the wealthiest individuals of the 21st century are oligarchs unto themselves-and owe much of their wealth, and much of their fealty, to the most anti-democratic forces around the world.

Many of the names of these new oligarchs are familiar. There is Elon Musk, who has flung the doors of financing and influence open to dictators from Saudi Arabia to Russia to China; Jared Kushner, who has inked deals from Serbia to Qatar to the United Arab Emirates and opened up unprecedented leverage for dictatorships on the highest rungs of American politics; and even more who have shunned the public spotlight, transforming entire industries into play-things for dictatorships in secret. And underneath all of them is a latticework of enablers and advisors who help them destabilize democratic countries, selling American policy and American assets to the highest bidders.

In United States of Oligarchy, Casey Michel illuminates a story decades in the making, from the first efforts to target corrupt corporate links with dictatorships, to the ascent of oligarchic experiments in places like Russia, to the frontlines of the fight for democracy in places like Ukraine, all of this now playing out in the U.S. itself.

The oligarchs have risen and are attempting to reign. The only question remaining is whether or not it's too late to stop them.